Directory > Society > Law > Legal Information > Defamation > Specific Cases Media Defamation.org Complaint about the unauthorized use of pictures from a matchmaking website in a broadcast news expose on immigration scams. http://www.mediadefamation.org/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Hustler Magazine v Jerry Falwell Jerry Falwell, a nationally known minister, sued the publisher of Hustler Magazine, Larry Flynt, over a "parody" featuring the respondent that appeared in the November 1983 issue of the magazine. http://www.epic.org/free_speech/hustler_v_falwell.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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John Peter Zenger Trial Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal, was brought to trial and charged with seditious libel against New York Colonial Governor William Cosby. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zenger.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery, Alabama, brought suit in a state court alleging that he had been libeled by an advertisement in corporate petitioner's newspaper, the text of which appeared over the names of the four individual petitioners and many others. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/nytvsullivan.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Hamilton v. Al Fayed Mr Hamilton, the former Tory MP, sued Harrods boss Mr al-Fayed over allegations Mr Fayed made in a Channel 4 programme that Mr Hamilton had accepted cash from him to ask parliamentary questions on his behalf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/hamilton/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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David John Cadwell Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd. & Deborah E. Lipstadt British historian David Irving brought a case against Jewish activist Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin, claiming that her work, 'Denying the Holocaust', libeled him. http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Limited and Others Mr. Reynolds, former Taoiseach of Ireland, sued Times Newspapers Ltd. for the contents of an article they published about him sub-headed 'Why a fib too far proved fatal for the political career of Ireland's peacemaker and Mr. Fixit'. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd991028/rey01.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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