Daishowa has requested a court order to prevent the public from criticizing the company's lawsuit against the organization Friends of the Lubicon, a group that initiated a boycott of Daishowa paper ...products. The group is protesting logging in Cree territory in Alberta.
A number of individual citizens and groups have been sued for speaking out against what they consider to be the excesses of corporations. Many of these corporations have filed lawsuits against these ...protestors. The ethical and legal aspects are discussed.
Libel and Slander Heller, David; Baron, Sandra
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications,
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Reference, Book Chapter
During the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, Margaret Gilleo of Ladue, Missouri, put up signs in her front yard reading, "Say 'No' to War in the Persian Gulf, Call Congress." When the signs were stolen and ...vandalized, she complained to the police, who informed her that she-- not the thief-- was violating the law. The police told Gilleo that Ladue had an ordinance against posting yard signs, and she had broken it.
Criticism by the press and citizens of the conduct of government can end up in a libel lawsuit. The First Amendment must be upheld by protecting freedom of speech and by enforcing libel immunity.
