In 2003, after six years of grueling litigation, the suit was withdrawn after Forbes published a clarification. (By then, curiously, Berezovsky had somehow managed to fast-track himself into Britain as a political refugee.) Both sides of the libel case agreed to walk away, each absorbing their own legal fees.

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But it was the very act of bringing the libel case that allowed the evidence to be aired in court.

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In the UK, Richard Branson won a libel case against the head of the company running the National Lottery over a bribe he said he was offered.

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Documents from a libel case paint an unflattering picture of Florida Democratic Senate hopeful Jeff Greene, with employees of a property management firm he used making declarations describing him as cruel and abusive.

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As noted by resident Forbes lawyer Kai Falkenberg, the case was interesting because it was one of the first libel-by-Twitter cases to play out in the courts.

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Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow, said she has settled a libel case brought by McAlpine after the High Court decided that her 2012 tweet naming the politician to her then-56, 000 followers was defamatory.

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