criminal libel

There were only a few instances of the criminal libel law being applied.

In 2002, he was unsuccessfully prosecuted from criminal libel by the government.

Criminal libel is rare or nonexistent, depending on the state.

Whitney was convicted of criminal libel and sentenced to prison for a month.

Although some states still carry criminal libel laws on the books, these are very infrequently used.

He was a plaintiff and defendant in several trials for civil or criminal libel.

Garrison was brought to trial for criminal libel, fined, and imprisoned.

The law made internet content subject to existing laws on expression, such as criminal libel.

I want your pal Huxley on a criminal libel complaint.

Later in 1964 the Supreme Court applied the same rule to criminal libel.

Then in an appropriate case the public authority may be able to secure the institution of a prosecution for criminal libel.

Norton was prosecuted for criminal libel but the jury could not agree on a verdict.

The purpose of criminal libel was to prevent loss of confidence in Government.

The allegations by Chesterton were so extreme that a criminal libel case was launched.

In 1835, Howe was prosecuted for criminal libel for one of his articles.

Lang attacked the judge in print and was sentenced to six months imprisonment for criminal libel.

Allan sued Billing for criminal libel, based on the following counts:

He arranged for both civil and criminal libel actions to be brought against critics who ridiculed him or the society in print.

It is a form of criminal libel.

A federal appeals court held that Puerto Rico's criminal libel law is unconstitutional.

Instead, he was arrested on suspicion of criminal libel, an area of the law that is very rarely applied.

The charge was criminal libel, which arose from a single paragraph published in Justice on 21 April 1894.

Liu went on to file a criminal libel suit against the pair on 7 November.

The jury took 10 min to decide to acquit Howe on the charge of criminal libel.

See also criminal libel for general information about the common law libel offences listed above.