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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/ » 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/ » 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.oyez.org/cases/case/?case=1980-1989/1987/1987_86_1278 » 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 » 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/ » 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. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/nytvsullivan.html » 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 This category needs an editor
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