• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Whoh

    In September 2012, BPI filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC for false claims about the product. By 2017, BPI was seeking $1.9 billion in damages. On June 28, 2017, ABC announced that it had settled the suit. Terms of the settlement were at least $177 million (US). Counsel for BPI stated that this was at that time the largest amount ever paid in a media defamation case in the United States.

    What’s that all about? Cut & dry case, clear abuse of the law, or somewhere in between? (The CNN link was dead, in my defense)