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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.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» Media Defamation.org - Complaint about the unauthorized use of pictures from a matchmaking website in a broadcast news expose on immigration scams.

» 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.

» 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'.

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