Sentences with phrase «libel by»

The media streaming giant was also sued a huge $ 1.5 billion last year in a dispute over breach of contract and libel by Relativity Media.

Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.

The Canadian National Post and Financial Post newspaper group is being sued for libel by Canadian scientist Andrew Weaver - a particularly interesting action, in that it seeks to make the paper liable for readers» comments appended to articles as well as for the articles themselves.

The author is being sued for libel by Dr. Mann (and will likely have to pay), and has never published a paper on climatology or climate physics.

LM's publishers were sued for libel by ITV over this, and the magazine was forced to close.

Why make yourself suspicious of neglect or maybe even libel by quoting anonymous sources without evidence, if you the necessary evidence to back your story?

Plagiarism, fraud, and libel by an author are real possibilities.

Denial spends its first 20 minutes labouring under a rather clunky, wordy screenplay and some under - par performances, as we revisit the 1996 High Court drama that saw American academic Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) being sued for libel by the controversial historian David Irving (Timothy Spall) after she accused him of being a Holocaust denier.

Rachel Weisz plays Deborah E. Lipstadt who is accused of libel by David Irving (Timothy Spall).

Courtroom drama from the director of The Bodyguard, starring Academy Award - winner Rachel Weisz as a writer being sued for libel by a renowned Holocaust denier (Timothy Spall)....

SYNOPSIS: American academic Deborah Lipstadt is accused of libel by historian David Irving when she declares him a Holocaust denier.

One of them, the gadfly lawyer and MP J.B. Jeyaretnam, was repeatedly sued for libel by Lee.

The plain simple truth is that decent scientists whose only «crime» is to happen to find evidence against doomsday global warming are constantly being prevented from publishing, from getting grants and are then being libelled by people such as this ******.

We have been raided by the police, had our main means of communication with the outside world confiscated [laptops and router] and our telephone line ripped out [apparently inadvertently by one of the officers], hounded by the press, libeled by a Harvard PhD and a Penn State professor among others and vilified by half the climateering blogosphere.

Not exact matches

«So when Trump says he wants to «open up» libel law, he really means (if he has the slightest knowledge of the law) that he wants to open up — to change — the First Amendment, which, beginning in 1964, has been held to require in cases brought by public figures, proof that what was said was false, and that the newspaper knew or suspected that it was false.

The ruling focused on the libel lawsuit filed by Douglas Kimzey, a locksmith business owner in Redmond, Washington.

That assertion netted her a libel claim by Lorenzo Tan, the former chief executive officer of RCBC, who also sued Deguito's lawyer.

He is being sued by Muscat for libel, which has raised concerns about whether Facebook suspended the account because of pressure from officials in Malta.

Other times, an actual lawsuit ensues, as when Trump retained attorney Marc Kasowitz to sue journalist Tim O'Brien for $ 5 million, claiming O'Brien libeled the notoriously image - conscious developer by asserting Trump was worth much less than he claimed.

March 14, 2018: BuzzFeed News, which is being sued by Cohen for libel after publishing the Steele dossier alleging ties between Trump (including Cohen) and the Russian government, sent a letter from its attorney to Avenatti, Daniels's attorney, asking him to preserve «any and all documents or communications about any relationship and / or sexual encounter (s) Ms. Clifford had and / or was alleged to have had, with President Trump» because they may be relevant to Cohen's suit.

We do know that he was destroyed by what was presented to the public as second - hand information allegedly gained from eight women, seven of whom reportedly signed an agreement that they would testify in public if Adams had the temerity to sue the Seattle Times for libel.

By the way, truth is an absolute defense to libel.

Since when does repeated gossip, slander and libel constitute «truth» simply because it has been repeated «all those years» by people who had not seen me in over 30 years?

A parallel can be found in a civil right as sacred as that of free speech, which can not be infringed but does suffer some regulation: pornography, fighting words, and libel are not protected from state law by the First Amendment.

Free speech is limited everywhere by slander laws, libels laws, hate laws, and other civil and criminal laws.

These grotesque libels have been propounded as well by tenured radicals as though they were facts, and disseminated in «news» stories without editorial comment by left - wing journalists like Earl Caldwell of the New York Daily News.

But after a crazy week (in which I was accused of «libel» by WORLD magazine of all places), Driscoll issued a response that suggests the elders of Mars Hill Church heard our requests and spoke with Mark about the carelessness of his words.

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A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

The amendment to the civil liberties policy motion read: «The protection of freedom of expression, by reforming the libel laws in England and Wales to ensure a better balance is provided between free speech, responsible journalism, scientific discourse and the public interest on one hand and powerful corporations, wealthy individuals and vested interests on the other.»

The fact Starmer mentions Thomas» deletion of the message indicated that — as in a libel case — moves to delete and apologise for messages after they are posted will be recognised by prosecutors.

The chairman said he would be pursuing a libel case against Gray, and also suggested Gray broke the law by obtaining and disseminating his personnel file.

A state law co-authored by state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D - Fresh Meadows) protecting journalists who report on terrorism from libel lawsuits in other countries that has since become federal law is now gaining traction across the pond.

A $ 45 million libel suit against two Southampton residents by former New York State Democratic Committee chairman Jay Jacobs has been dismissed.

Activists will be paying careful attention to the libel bill's suggestions with the hope they may be adopted by the government when it presents its own legislation.

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday promised to decide by the end of August whether to let a libel suit by Sarah Palin against The New York Times proceed after hearing 90 minutes of arguments on the case.

A Brooklyn sex - crimes prosecutor accused of sexual assault by a reporter for the Daily News has fired back with a $ 10 million libel suit.

It added that the arm - twisting tactic was a panicky measure to divert attention from the criminal libel suit by the former governor against a member of the House, Dr Samuel Omotoso, and the governor's aide, Lere Olayinka, over allegations of fraud.

Christopher Jefferies, the Bristol landlord of a flat from which murdered 25 - year - old Joanna Yeates disappeared, who was libelled five years ago by the Sun, among other newspapers, said: «The proposed reappointment of Rebekah Brooks, who has never apologised to the victims of her negligent oversight, is yet another sign that we have a press industry that is largely unreformed, unrepentant and unwilling to understand that they have lost the public's trust.»

Moreover, libel laws are more stringently enforced by the courts, and campaigning is tightly controlled by centralised party machines.

The plaintiffs are also seeking «damages, including aggravated damages for libel contained in the defendants» publications indorsed on the writ of summons by way of an attachment and particularized in paragraphs 5 and 6 above» and «cost, including lawyer's fees».

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.

Plans to reform Britain's arcane libel laws have been thrown into doubt after the House of Lords last night approved amendments introduced to the Defamation Bill by the film producer Lord Puttnam - Independent

«New York is the world's crossroads, so what happens out there — in this case, the U.K.'s libel tourism problem and its misuse by terrorism's apologists and facilitators — affects us here, and it's nice to know that our defense of free speech here in New York is likewise having an impact out there as pressure builds in the U.K. to cease being a haven for libel terrorists,» the assemblyman said.

Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, said: «The decision by Neil Hamilton and Ian Greer must be one of the most astonishing legal cave - ins in the history of the law of libel.»

She was giving evidence on day four of the libel trial brought by Mitchell against the Sun newspaper for its story on the row.

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.

Last month, however, after two years of campaigning by scientists and free speech activists, the UK government published a draft defamation bill, the first step on the road to reforming English libel law.