Sentences with phrase «in libel suits»

A plaintiff in a libel suit opens him or herself up to reputational harm and highly intrusive legal discovery which is often enough to scare people away.

Ezra Levant testified in his defense in his libel suit.

Judge sides with blogger in libel suit over «harshly critical» post about Hasidic Jews, The National Post

He was in the news again this week for being named the defendant in a libel suit by Joanne St. Lewis, a law professor at UofO, over a blog post on Rancourt's site, UofO Watch.

Lisus briefly represented former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown in his libel suit against CTV after investigative reporter Glen McGregor broke the story that two women, one a former staffer, were accusing Brown of sexual misconduct.

Represented a nonprofit firm, a major national newspaper and others in a libel suit in New York arising out of the content of an advertisement published in the newspaper and on the Internet.

In 2000, Julius successfully defended the American scholar Deborah Lipstadt in a libel suit brought by the historian David Irving, whom Lipstadt had included among the culprits in her book «Denying the Holocaust.»

It has the feel of Exhibit A in a libel suit waiting to happen.

Not exact matches

Brian Mulroney is the centerpiece in Stevie Cameron's blockbuster, On The Take and again in The Last Amigo — two books that if erroneous about Mr. Mulroney (given his threats against the government) should have brought libel suits.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

He was jailed when a Southern slave trader brought a libel suit against him in Baltimore.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners, Mr. Ibrahim Mahama has stated that even though the wheels of justice in the country grind slowly, he is certain justice will be served him in a GHc5 million libel suit against Ashanti Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi Bosiako.

The $ 45 million libel suit former state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs filed against two opponents of a camp he wants to build in the Hamptons has been dismissed.

Eliot Spitzer is now facing two libel suits worth $ 90 million in connection with a column he wrote a year ago for Slate.com.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

In most countries, the defendant of a slander or libel suit must prove a story true to avoid liability.

As well as threats made after publication, I regularly hear from overseas scientists who self - censor their writing in order to avoid a potential libel suit.

A recent survey by the charity Sense About Science revealed that more than 1 in 3 editors of scientific or medical journals have refused material for fear of a libel suit.

On Sunday, Servick reported «that Sarkar has filed a libel suit in a Wayne County circuit court against several «John Does» behind the comments he considers defamatory.»

One well - documented clash between science and censorship is in the use of libel actions to try to silence scientists and science writers; the journal Nature and Richard Dawkins are among the most recent to face suits.

In the latest so - called libel tourism case under the United Kingdom's controversial laws, cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst has been hit with another defamation suit.

As bloggers have noted, this case will be one of the first tests of a new Texas law designed to discourage capricious libel suits by putting the burden on the plaintiff (Wakefield in this case) to prove that the defendants» speech has caused damage before the suit can go forward.

As to why the proceedings were filed in Texas rather than in the libel - suit - friendly United Kingdom, they said that «any action brought against the BMJ and Mr. Deer in London would have been immediately vulnerable to being struck out as an abuse of process.»

James Dalton has ripped of numerous people in the French Bulldog community and has several law suits against him for fraud, breach of contract and slander / libel.

Many of the early practitioners of institutional critique met serious resistance to their work, the classic example being the Guggenheim Museum canceling a Haacke show in 1971, claiming it feared a libel suit as a result of a work investigating an alleged slumlord.

In other news, a private art dealer has filed a libel and slander suit against actress Claire Forlani for allegedly falsely claiming that he sold her a fake photographic print and had sold other fakes to other customers, according to Courthouse News.

Re # 21: not much chance of a libel suit in the US, unless a skeptic made knowingly false statements about the work of particular scientists who supported AGW.

He brought the suit [in Britain] because British libel law puts the burden on the defendants — in this case, Ms. Lipstadt and Penguin — to prove the truth of their assertions.

about Affidavits in Michael Mann Libel Suit Reveal Astonishing Facts About Tim Ball Associate John O'Sullivan

In Mann's libel suit, the focus is properly on Mann and Steyn.

«Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph's data.

And by making him an admin in effect endorsing him wikipedia will not be able to slither its way out of it like they do with most of the libel suits they get.

That quip incensed the thin - skinned Mann into filing a libel suit against Ball in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Canada.

«while Irving chose a fool for his lawyer (by representing himself in his spectacularly failed libel suit against historian, Deborah Lipstadt), Mann's lawyers appear have saddled themselves with a fool for a client.»

In the realm of discussions about science, Simon Singh's triumph over a libel suit brought by the British Chiropractors Association stands out, as does Ben Goldacre's successful # 500,000 defense against Matthias Rath — a vitamin salesman peddling bogus AIDS cures.

And where is the libel suit we heard so much about in the media?

Harder previously represented Melania Trump in two libel suits against the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail, which were settled in April, the New York Times reported at the time.

Katie Mohammed had been hit with the libel suit after she posted comments online regarding a gravel pit in her community.

When plaintiffs use that fact to file a suit abroad that might not fly in the U.S., legal experts refer to this type of forum shopping as libel tourism.

The legislation was prompted, as the BBC report says, by a libel suit against American writer Rachel Ehrenfeld who was sued in England, a notorious destination for libel tourism, because of a book on the funding of terrorism.

Dan's business litigation included defending a truck manufacturer in suits by disgruntled dealers, the defense of numerous officers and directors of failed savings and loans, a recovery for limited partners in a franchise who were misled by a franchisor, defense of libel actions, trade secret litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, lease covenant disputes for commercial tenants of shopping centers, and business partnership disputes.

In addition, her suit alleges unfair business practices, defamation, libel and various other offenses that took place during the course of the October wrongful foreclosure and its aftermath.

«But with 25 judges suing for libel in 2005 alone — nearly 10 percent of all libel suits filed nationwide — that form of judicial restraint is fading, raising questions about the role, and the ethics, of judges and whether they have a right to be as litigious as everyone else.»

There have been internet libel law suits where judges have issued orders directing that anonymous internet bloggers are to be revealed in the full light of day, such orders are normally accompanied by protests from a trivial yet noisy family of rabid people who deem that freedom of expression should be absolute and unconditional & the speaker should not be held to account for their words, without consideration to the accuracy or deceptiveness of the allegations.

I don't think the parties pursuing libel suits are typically government entities or officials acting in their official capacities, possibly for exactly the reason you give: it would be unconstitutional.

I'm not sure what relevance any of that has to the current case, since the suit in question was governed by Canadian libel law.

Libel tourism was much more feasible in 1996, when David Irving brought his suit.

For if the idea becomes popular that the Amendment is an all - purpose shield for journalists, warding off libel suits, deposi - tions, and searches as well as censorship, then it must become a weaker shield [bold mine], because it will seem obvious that so broad a power in the press must be balanced against other private and social interests in the community.

The gist of her suit was that the Post, by quoting a MySpace page in which Cordero «gives a graphic depiction of a masturbatory fantasy» in which she has sex with multiple men and women, implied she was a «promiscuous slut» and therefore committed libel per se.

But her libel suit continued on in the New York courts.