Sioux Falls, SD - Pink Slime Libel Case Settled

Beef Products, Inc. sued ABC on a libel theory claiming that The American Broadcasting Company allegation that Beef Products was producing "pink slime" was untrue. Plaintiff claimed that ABC misled consumers into believing that the product was unsafe, is not beef and is not nutritious.

ABC claimed that its publication was truthful

In 2010, the Internal Revenue Service set a trap to catch
people filing for fraudulent tax refunds. The IRS enlisted the
assistance of plaintiffs’ tax preparation and refund-advance
businesses. It warned that refusal to cooperate would
interfere with a federal criminal investigation, it used millions
of plaintiffs’ dollars as bait, and it promised to reimburse
them for any

This is an appeal from a take-nothing final summary judgment rendered in favor of appellee Ellen A. Yarrell on appellant James W. Paulsen’s defamation claims. Paulsen challenges the trial court’s denial of a motion to dismiss, which attempted to invoke the Texas Citizens Participation Act. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. &
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REM. CODE §§ 27.001–.011. Paulsen also argues that summary judgment was impro

After siblings Kaleta and Seth Johnson sued Dinesh Shah for Shah’s protracted abuse of their family, Michael Phillips, a Houston attorney, defended Shah against the allegations in a 2008 civil trial. Phillips later published a book,
titled “Monster in River Oaks,” about the events giving rise to the suit. According to its prologue, the book tells the “story of a predatory monster that set out

Salem, OR - Dr. Kristian Ferry sued McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center on breach of contract and defamation theories claiming to have been damaged as a direct result of for being terminated in 2015.

The Defendants denied wrongdoing and asserted truth in their defense on the libel claim.

This action arises out of a series of events that began at a
Los Angeles middle school, where Katia Julian taught
mathematics, and ended at Mission Community Hospital, where
Julian was involuntarily detained for mental health evaluation
and treatment. After her release, Julian sued the Los Angeles
Unified School District (LAUSD), the Los Angeles Unified School
Police (LAUSP

Tulsa, OK - Thorco Holdings, LLC sued Bejnamin Albin, Scott Pennington and Eric Yost on libel and slander theories claiming that the defendants were, at one time, Plaintiff's employees. It claimed that Defendants agreed not to complete with it if they terminated their employment with it but did so in fact after February 9, 2016 when they formed PSM Solutions.

Plaintiff claimed that the

This appeal arises from a suit brought by Jerry C. Johnson seeking declarations
construing the terms of two insurance policies following an automobile accident in which Jerry’s
son, Jacob, a minor at the time, was injured while Jerry was driving.1 See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.
Code §§ 37.001–.011. Jerry sued State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, which had
issued Jerry an aut

Tulsa, OK - C. McNeil f/n/a C. Coyle sued Patrick Coyle on libel and slander theories.

Defendant claimed truth as a defense.

Issues

For cases filed before 1/1/2000, ancillary issues may not appear except in the docket.

Issue # 1. Issue: LIBEL / SLANDER (LIBEL)
Filed By: MCNEIL, C
Filed Date: 11/13/2014
Party Name Disposition Information
Defe

Roger Garling, Sheryl Garling, and their business, R and D Enterprises, Inc.,
(collectively, “the Garlings”) sued the United States for damages arising from an
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Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) raid and investigation of their l

John M. Donohue challenges the trial court’s judgment granting the pleas to the jurisdiction
filed by the City of Boerne’s Police Chief James Koehler and Police Officer Pablo Morales.
Donohue also challenges the trial court’s judgment granting Martha Donohue’s plea to the
jurisdiction rendered in the same proceeding. We affirm the trial court’s judgment granting Chief
Koehler and O

The facts in this litigation are not clear. According to Mr. Bernard, a “blow-out” occurred on his property in October, 2014. The Lafayette Utilities
1Declinatory exceptions of insufficiency of citation and service of process, dilatory exceptions of vagueness, nonconformity of the petition, and lack of procedural capacity, and a peremptory exception of no cause of action were filed by various

Charlottesville, VA - Jury Finds In Favor of Plaintiff In Rolling Stone Defamation Case

Nicole Eramo sued Rolling Stone magazine, Wenner Media and Sabrina Rubin Erdely on libel, with actual malice, and respondeat superior theories claiming that the defendants defamed her in a 2014 magazine article about sexual assaul on campus that included a debunked account of a fraternity gang rape.

On July 16, 2012, Daniel de Abreu and
Safiro Furtado were murdered in an alleged drive-by shooting in
the South End section of Boston. During the investigation of
the crimes, Alexander Bradley stated that he witnessed the
defendant shoot at five occupants of a 2003 BMW sedan on the
date in question. He further stated that on February 13, 2013,
while he and the defen

In 2012, while seventeen years old, appellant was adjudicated delinquent for two instances
of violating Code § 18.2-248(G), possession with intent to distribute imitation cocaine. The
violations of Code § 18.2-248(G) would have been non-violent felonies if appellant had been an
adult when he committed the offenses. Appellant does not dispute that he was over the age of
fiftee

On March 27, 2014, Melissa Goddard (plaintiff) filed a complaint against APG Security
RI, LLC, as well as against Scott Hemingway and Anna Vidiri in their capacities as
employees/agents of APG Security-RI, LLC (collectively, defendants). The complaint alleged
that, in January 2010, when plaintiff was employed as a security guard by APG Security-RI,
LLC, defendants violated G.L.

Yvette Ford sued the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) asserting retaliation in
violation of the Minnesota Whistleblower Act (MWA). In April 2013, the district court
dismissed Ford’s MWA claim on the ground that the statute of limitations had expired.
The court of appeals affirmed. Ford v. Minneapolis Pub. Schs., 845 N.W.2d 566 (Minn.
App. 2014). Ford petitioned for review.

¶1 The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit [certifying court] certified the following questions pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 1991 ' ' 1601 et seq.:

1. In light of the facts as detailed below that the Defendants Laurance B. Wolfberg and Carolyn Wolfberg either individually or combined instituted four separate lawsuits and filed one

On September 19, 2012, Charles Korzan and his brother, Michael
Korzan, (Korzans) were moving hay bales from Charles’s property in Jones County
to his property in Brule County to feed livestock. The weather and crop conditions
were dangerously dry. To transport the hay bales, Michael drove a 1998
International 9400 series semi-truck, hauling a 48-foot trailer. Charles drove a

On September 19, 2012, Charles Korzan and his brother, Michael
Korzan, (Korzans) were moving hay bales from Charles’s property in Jones County
to his property in Brule County to feed livestock. The weather and crop conditions
were dangerously dry. To transport the hay bales, Michael drove a 1998
International 9400 series semi-truck, hauling a 48-foot trailer. Charles drove a

When Doe was thirty-five years old, he acknowledged the amicus briefs submitted by the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, and by the Youth Advocacy Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts.
reportedly "twisted" the penis of his six year old nephew through the

In the mid-1970s, Donald Thomas Scholz, a musician, composer, recording engineer, and record producer,
founded the rock band "Boston." After many years playing in the band, Brad Delp, who was its lead singer, committed suicide on March 9, 2007. The Boston Herald, Inc., published three stories regarding Brad's suicide, written by columnists Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, who relied on informati

On July 12,2011, Plaintiff United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company ("USF&G")
filed a complaint against Defendants Ashley Reed Inc. ("Ashley Reed"), Scott Ressler, James
Ressler (collectively, the "Ashley Reed Defendants"), Fendi Adele, S.r.l., Fendi S.r.l, and Fendi
North America, Inc. (collectively, "Fendi"), seeking a declaratory judgment that three liability
insurance po

On June 5, 2002, the Weakses, as sellers, and White, as purchaser, executed a document entitled “Contract for Deed” pursuant to which White agreed to make a down payment and monthly installments for ten years to purchase a small tract of land and a mobile home. White did not make a payment in December 2011, January 2012, or February 2012. In February 2012, the Weakses demanded that she pay the amo

The defendants David Nyberg and CSM North, LLC (CSM),1 appeal from the judgment of the trial court awarding a prejudgment remedy in favor oftheplaintiffs,StanleyValencis,ACSYS,Inc.(ACSYS), and MIG Ventures, LLC (MIG), in the amount of $1,517,389.40.2 On appeal, the defendants claim that (1) the court improperly granted the application for a prejudgment remedy without taking into account the defen