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New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

The New Paper - 08 Jan 2005 Pet shop sues dead dog's owner over Net posting By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg COURT recently handled an unusual case - two people embroiled in a fight over a dead puppy. The fight erupted after the 3-month-old puppy, a Jack Russell terrier, died soon after it was bought from a pet shop. The disappointed pet owner posted an Internet message to say the shop knowingly sold him a sick puppy. The angry shop owner, a woman, sued the buyer for defamation. The case, believed to be the first of its kind here, was settled...

3 Dovalinas sue Times over taxpayer's comment Times Staff Reports The city manager, police chief and Laredo Community College president have filed suit against the Laredo Morning Times, claiming they were defamed in a June 13 article about higher property appraisals. Larry Dovalina, Agustin Dovalina III and Ramon Dovalina, respectively, also included as defendants: Tricia Cortez, the staff reporter who wrote the article; and businessman Patricio Canavati, owner of Quality Motors, who was quoted in the story. The suit, filed by Julio Garcia Sr., alleges that one of Canavati's comments "meant, and was intended to mean, that the plaintiffs were...

Former Congressman's Defamation Suit Against Columnist Goes Forward Mark Hamblett New York Law Journal 04-28-2004 A federal judge has refused to dismiss a slander suit brought by former California Congressman Gary Condit for statements made by columnist Dominick Dunne about the disappearance and death of Chandra Levy. Southern District of New York Judge Peter K. Leisure said Tuesday that Condit has asserted enough facts to survive dismissal, based on comments Dunne made about the Levy case on three national talk shows and at dinner parties where he regaled guests with rumors concerning the congressman. "This action brings the Court to...

<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A business was defamed when The New York Times used the pharmaceutical company's Web site to illustrate a story on illegal conduct, but the case doesn't warrant financial damages, a federal jury ruled.</p> <p>Franklin Prescriptions Co. said it was the victim of "defamation by implication" when the Times used a portion of its Web site to illustrate an Oct. 25, 2000, story headlined "A Web Bazaar Turns Into a Pharmaceutical Free-for-All."</p>

City to retract release calling Free Republic a 'hate group.' Fresno will pay $60,000 to conservative online forum Free Republic and retract a news release that called the organization a "hate group," according to a settlement agreement released Monday. Free Republic founder Jim Robinson, who lives in Fresno, said he wouldn't have filed the suit if the city had acknowledged its error. "I think it's unfortunate the city did not retract and apologize immediately after they knew they were in the wrong," Robinson said. City Attorney Hilda Cantu Montoy said the lawsuit was settled to "avoid the expense and burden...

<p>December 30, 2003 -- LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara County authorities yesterday tore into Michael Jackson's stunning allegations of police brutality by the cops who busted him last month. The self-proclaimed King of Pop and accused child molester told "60 Minutes," in an interview aired Sunday, that sheriff's deputies roughed him up and degraded him during his Nov. 20 arrest.</p>

<p>The Charles Cullen case is spurring legislation, in both Washington and Trenton, to protect employers who give out honest, though negative, job references.</p> <p>New Jersey's two senators as well as several Assembly members in Trenton said they are moving forward with efforts to protect employers who say previous employees were fired, or performed poorly on the job.</p>

DES MOINES (AP) -- A former employee of Taco Bell has filed a lawsuit claiming his boss defamed him and humiliated him in front of a witness. James A. Egenberger, 22, filed a lawsuit in Polk County District Court against Taco Bell seeking damages for personal humiliation, embarrassment and emotion distress arising out of his September 2002 firing from a Taco Bell in West Des Moines. Court records show that store manager Randy Vinzant accused of Egenberger of being a thief in front of other employees and customers. Vinzant was later found to be responsible for $2,500 in store receipts...

I was on Hannity & Colmes on the Fox News Channel last night (here's the transcript). I defended myself against a smear made by Paul Krugman on the October 17 H&C show. At the time the New York Times pundit said that I had "stalked" him "personally." Adding to this drama, after Krugman falsely accused me of a felony, he had the gall to accuse me of smearing him in a new posting on his personal website and in his New York Times column today. Why is Krugman prolonging this episode (which could have been concluded with an apology and...

Judicial Watch, reacted to the contents of Hillary Clinton's new book, "Living History." The Government Watchdog Group is suing Mrs. Clinton in at least three lawsuits,including a defamation and conspiracy action for Gennifer Flowers. Judicial Watch also represents Hillary Clinton's $2 million-plus contributor Peter Paul against her in a civil action in California and she is a defendant in the FBI files "Filegate" lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch for former Reagan and first Bush administration officials and others whose FBI files were illegally taken and misused by the Clinton White House. Gennifer Flowers' lawsuit alleges an active conspiracy by Hillary...

<p>The Serbs are at it again. Once again, they are playing their role as the perpetual victims of Europe, complaining about unfair treatment by the international community and whining about the injustice of it all. If the Serbian mentality was supposed to have changed since the ouster and war crimes indictment of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic, this was not evident from the recent visit of Serbian government leaders to Washington.</p>

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who was offended when a church official wrote a letter warning that "the spirit of Satan" was at work in her congregation. The seven-member court unanimously said that it was extremely reluctant to intervene in internal church disputes, but that in this case the letter had been circulated outside the congregation, and a trial is needed to resolve the matter. A lower court had thrown out the case. The case involves a Methodist church in Shell Rock and an internal dispute...

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The New York Times and one of its reporters "stained" an Ohio Supreme Court justice by wrongly linking him to the prosecution of Dr. Sam Sheppard, a lawyer told jurors Thursday in a defamation lawsuit. Justice Francis E. Sweeney accused the newspaper and reporter Fox Butterfield of defaming him in an article published April 13, 2000. Sweeney said the article incorrectly connected him to the prosecution of the case and also accused him of pressuring prosecutors to oppose a civil action led by Sheppard's son, who was trying to have his father declared innocent. The justice says...

Conflict divides St. Mary's Nylon issue: Sides accuse each other of overreacting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ted Slowik STAFF WRITER PLAINFIELD — Some parents and youth ministry leaders at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church are saying a family overreacted by confronting parish officials and contacting police after eighth-graders in a confirmation class were told to put on nylon stockings as an exercise during a retreat. Some other parents say the pastor overreacted by expelling the family's two sons from the parish school because their father violated a parental code of conduct by being too "intrusive, inflammatory or overbearing." People on both...

SEAN GORDON Montreal Gazette Tuesday, May 14, 2002 Former MNA Yves Michaud, who provoked an uproar 15 months ago with comments he made about Jews, has lost a defamation lawsuit against a McGill professor who qualified Michaud's remarks as "anti-Semitic." Michaud had sought $15,000 in damages from Marc Angenot, a French professor who said during a Radio-Canada interview: "Yves Michaud has the right to make anti-Semitic statements and I have the right to find them contemptible." Michaud sued, claiming his reputation had been sullied by Angenot. In a written decision dated May 2, Quebec Court Judge Antonio De Michele found...

<p>Whatever the precise meaning of "skank" -- and it's clearly not flattering -- it isn't slanderous to be called one on the radio.</p> <p>At least that was the conclusion of a state appellate court in dismissing a suit by a San Francisco woman who was subjected to a round of name-calling after refusing to be interviewed on the air about her experience as a contestant on TV's "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?"</p>