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Julia A. Seymour | August 10, 2017

ABC News learned that sliming a company can cost a lot of money. An attorney for Beef Products Inc. told CNN Money, BPI was awarded more than $177 million in the settlement of its defamation lawsuit against ABC because its beef was called “…

Aly Nielsen | July 5, 2017

The broadcast networks have refused to cover the conclusion of a massive defamation case involving one of their own.

ABC News and Beef Products Inc (BPI) reached a confidential settlement which concluded a 5-year-old lawsuit as of June 27…

Julia A. Seymour | June 14, 2017

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The defamation case Reuters called a “trial of a lifetime,” between Beef Products Inc. and ABC over the network’s coverage of its lean finely…

Julia A. Seymour | June 8, 2017

A case with huge implications for journalists and speech began on June 5, and the three broadcast networks ignored it.

Perhaps because it is one of their own — ABC — which is being sued for its biased attacks on one company…

Joseph Rossell | April 9, 2015

Surprise! Millions of uninsured Americans could owe Uncle Sam extra this tax season because of Obamacare.

The IRS began penalizing tax filers this year if they failed to purchase insurance in 2014. Obamacare, formally…