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  • Libel or Slander: Libel is written, slander is oral.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Libel is indictable in Commonwealth countries (that means Britain, folks), who share a common legal system with the States. example Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The American Way 2009

  • Libel is now more often said to consist of any written or printed words or any visible or audible matter recorded in any form of a more or less permanent nature, including letters, newspapers, films, or television or radio broadcasts.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Libel is a civil lawsuit that places the people responsible for starting rumors or continuing to spread rumors with reckless disregard to the facts.

    Second petition drive launched to make Clinton VP 2008

  • Libel is finely tuned to the resources of the defendant.

    Nonsense on the web David 2005

  • Libel is finely tuned to the resources of the defendant.

    Archive 2005-03-01 David 2005

  • Oh, and to the truthers reading this, if you have the good fortune to be directed here …. if Bush _HAD_ either ordered 9/11 or been "complicit in letting it happen" (watch out for what we call "Libel" - or the US equivalent, whatever it may be called!) how many people do you think would have had to be in the loop, and their silence bought or enforced?

    The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG 2009

  • The Term 'Blood Libel': More Common Than You Might Think - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online AMERICAblog News: Frank Rich: 'Heady with hubris' teabags will shut it down again plus, Koch Brothers Coup in DC Flavorwire » Celebs, They're Geeks Like Us: Libraries of the Rich and Famous Frank Rich: "The once-bedrock American values of shared sacrifice and equal economic opportunity have been overrun."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • If you put "Daily Mail" onto the middle line of Google Advanced Search, and "Libel" on the top one, and then restrict your search to a week, you will find 554 hits.

    Proof that the Daily Mail really is your Daily Scum Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • According to law, written defamation of an individual's character subjects one to criminal prosecution for "Libel".

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

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