Sentences with phrase «libel when»

Based on the acclaimed book «History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,» DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Academy Award ® winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Cannes Award winner Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.

Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.

Irving accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.

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«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.

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.

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?

William J. Brennan wrote passionately for a unanimous Court of the clear public interest they saw in protecting news reporters from libel lawsuits, even when journalists report falsehoods as facts.

The second thing wrong with Rabbi Petuchowski's argument is that it libels Jews when it claims that they harbor «Jewish animosity» toward «public celebration of the birthday of Jesus of Nazareth.»

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

Times when Governor Berkeley of Virginia in 1670 said, «I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government.

To commit citizens of Ghana to jail on account of what they have said at a time when democratic societies are moving away from such a practice would appear to roll back all the gains made since the repeal of the criminal libel law.

Perhaps, if and when Lord Lester's Libel Bill gets passed into law some people will follow Corporal Jones» advice «Don't panic!».

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.

Crayg Dykes, George Buckton and Herb Wiggins also accused District Attorney William Fitzpatrick of libeling them after the charges were dismissed when he published a news release attacking their conduct.

The passing of the royal charter opens the door for a judge to impose a financial penalty on a newspaper even when it wins a libel case — although any such move would have to wait for a year until the state - backed regulator is established.

His ministerial career was brief and ended when he famously gave a speech about leading a fight with a «sword of truth» and a libel case he brought collapsed.

This was the sort of case which showed up exactly how inadequate our libel laws are when confronted with rumour - mongering of this scale on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

In addressing members of Parliament and journalists in London, Lancman said «all of us are threatened» when «American journalists and authors can be hauled into kangaroo courts on phoney - baloney libel charges in overseas jurisdictions who don't share our belief in freedom of speech or a free press.»

The same U.S. company that had originally filed against him in 2007 served his lawyers yesterday with its latest complaint, which concerns when Wilmshurst explained his libel case on BBC Radio in 2009.

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

When people think of fast - talking, hard - boiled, no - nonsense reporters they think of Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns in His Girl Friday; the charming Bill Chandler in Libeled Lady; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All The President's -LSB-...]

Although it seems insane to think that someone could believe this, when Irving brought a libel suit against Lipstadt and Penguin Books LTD, the case turned into a trial to prove that yes, the Holocaust did happen.

The «review» produced a lengthy libel lawsuit that spanned years, and was resolved in 2011 when Britain's High Court decided that the lawsuit should be thrown out and ordered Tesla to pay the BBC's legal costs of over $ 100,000.

When a writer damages another person's reputation by publishing a false statement, it's called libel — and it's illegal.

On the basis of «CREATOR principles» previously set by the SoA, demands include that authors should receive «at least» 50 % of the revenue from e-book sales, «not a mere 25 %» they do currently, that authors don't have their «hands tied with contracts that can not be terminated when a book is no longer being exploited», for publishers to drop non-compete clauses and for indemnity clauses, often included to help protect publishers financially against cases brought on the basis of plagarism and libel, «to spread the risk fairly between the publisher and the author».

Consider the same care and wording as you would when placing ads in the parent club magazine «Chow Life», or any other publication where your comments may expose you to libel.

When we last saw the game studio Digital Homicide, they were suing game critic Jim Sterling for $ 10 million, charging him with libel and slander for harshly criticizing their games.

See, it's cases like this, when big media steamrollers all over the reputation of a scientist, that the UK libel system is designed for.

When a graduate student named Justin Lancaster - who had worked closely with Revelle before his death in 1991 - tried to insist that Revelle had not changed his view, he was sued for libel.

I know I became disenchanted when Greenpeace (US branch, I believe) libeled Du Pont (incidentally with global warming FUD) while I was working there around 1990.

I advise and represent clients in defamation issues, including when bloggers and blog comments venture into libel.

When one steps outside the bounds of civility and collegiality, descending into hyperbolic rant, name - calling and unsupportable accusations, one opens themselves to receiving the same back again, and to the force of laws on libel and slander.

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.

When I pointed out that NEITHER JOHN NOR ANYONE AT HIS WEBSITE accused any climate scientist of fraud, you ignore the fact that you had just libelled a good man.

For this reason, it's incredibly important to draft a social media policy for your company specifically outlining topics to avoid when engaged in social media on behalf of your business, such as politically sensitive issues, defamatory comments (including libel or slander), or other offensive or discriminatory language.

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy gained national notoriety when he won a $ 2 million libel verdict against the Boston Herald in 2005.

She claims she is entitled to «substantial damages» from the critical scribe for what she believes is libel (libel is when defamatory statements are put into writing).

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.

When Katie Mohammed turned to Facebook to air concerns about her community — as millions of people do every day — she didn't think she'd ever be sued for libel, and become the centre of a precedent - setting case in Ontario's laws protecting speech in the public interest.

A year ago, when the Libel Reform Campaign was launched only the Liberal Democrats strongly endorsed the need for change.

As Crookes» own complaint puts it, Geist became a publisher of libel «by advertising, promoting, and driving internet traffic to the P2pnet.net website through his articles..., by hyperlinking with P2PNet.net, and by refusing to remove the hyperlink when requested.»

Michael Coyle, solicitor advocate at Lawdit Solicitors, says: «The judge commented that when considered in the context of defamation law, therefore, communications of this kind were much more akin to slander than to the usual, more permanent kind of communications found in libel actions.»

But when a 2000 ABA Journal article called him «the most powerful lawyer - cum - fixer in the state,» he sued the magazine for libel.

Britain's libel laws have traditionally favored the plaintiff — so much so, in fact, that plaintiffs often made substantial efforts to sue for libel in Britain when possible, even when a media organization is based in another county.

When a person follows a hyperlink to a secondary source that contains defamatory words, the actual creator or poster of the defamatory words in the secondary material is the person who is publishing the libel.

There are also lots of questions being raised around the traditional law and how it applies to claims related to new media — partly because Canada's Libel and Slander Act hasn't been updated in a long time and when it was written the Internet did not exist.

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

I am reminded of a former occasion when a group of aggrieved participants on the public forum http://rabble.ca/babble got into an online discussion about the possibility of suing me for libel (over something I had said that was really quite innocuous).

When considered in the context of defamation law, therefore, communications of this kind are much more akin to slanders (this cause of action being nowadays relatively rare) than to the usual, more permanent kind of communications found in libel actions.

It is also concerning to think that it might join that long list of situations where lawyers have been used in a way that has retarded debate on important health issues (such as, in extremis, this memorable episode when a High Court judge criticised Andrew Wakefield for trying to use libel law to silence his critics).