The highly anticipated proceeding gets underway with Beef Products Inc. telling jurors that the broadcaster killed much of its business with a series of reports in March 2012. By Eriq Gardner Former ...

ABC News’s decision to settle a food libel lawsuit over its “pink slime” report sends a dangerous signal that a powerful mainstream news organization is unwilling fight to vindicate its reporting. And ...

ELK POINT, S.D./CHICAGO (Reuters) - ABC News' characterization of a South Dakota meat processor's ground-beef product as "pink slime" almost put Beef Products Inc out of business, BPI's lawyer said on ...

News of perhaps the largest defamation settlement in U.S. history came and went with a whimper last week. In two footnotes in its third-quarter earnings report, The Walt Disney Company whispered that ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - ABC Broadcasting has lost a last-ditch bid before South Dakota’s highest court to avoid a trial in a beef producer’s $5.7 billion defamation case over reports about a product that ...

A journey to South Dakota to hear arguments whether preconceived negative spin in the media should result in massive punishments. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large That would be the one ...

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) likely paid $177 million toward a settlement with Beef Products Inc., the South Dakota-based meat processing company that filed suit against ABC News over its 2012 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on a beef product that critics dubbed ...

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 – Representatives from Beef Products Inc. and ABC News say a lawsuit over ABC’s use of the term “pink slime” in reference to lean, finely textured beef (LFTB) has been ...

Remember the controversy and resulting multibillion-dollar libel and defamation lawsuit over Lean Finely Textured Beef being dubbed "pink slime" by ABC News? An undisclosed settlement has been reached ...