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David John Cadwell Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd. & Deborah E. Lipstadt - http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/
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. |
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John Peter Zenger Trial - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zenger.html
Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal, was brought to trial and charged with seditious libel against New York Colonial Governor William Cosby. |
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Hustler Magazine v Jerry Falwell - http://www.oyez.org/cases/case/?case=1980-1989/1987/1987_86_1278
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. |
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Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Limited and Others - http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd991028/rey01.htm
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'. |
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New York Times Co. v. Sullivan - http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/nytvsullivan.html
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. |