Alabama jury delivers record $7 million slander verdict 
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: November 16, 2011
Tags: Alabama, defamation, racial harassment, slander
An Alabama jury has awarded $7 million to an Iranian owner of a Toyota dealership whose competitor told customers the plaintiff funded terrorism and that buying a car from him amounted to killing American soldiers.
The verdict is reportedly the highest defamation verdict in state history.
Ousted preacher collects award for libel, slander
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: October 24, 2011
Tags: breach of contract, libel, slander, South Carolina, tax evasion, wrongful discharge
After a relatively minor tax mistake triggered a series of increasingly bitter and bizarre spats between a South Carolina pastor and the church he led for 18 years, a jury ultimately awarded him a six-figure verdict for his suffering.
Federal jury awards priest $2.8 million, but orders $500,000 back
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: December 17, 2010
Tags: back pay, involuntary servitude, New York, slander
A federal jury awarded an Indian priest $2.8 million in back pay and damages for years of involuntary servitude at a Queens, N.Y. ashram. The jurors also ordered the priest to pay the ashram owners $500,000 for slander for saying they treated him like a “slave.”
$500K awarded in slander lawsuit
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: July 7, 2010
Tags: Georgia, slander
A Twiggs County, Ga. jury has awarded a Houston County woman more than $500,000 in damages and attorney’s fees after her former pastor told the congregation in 2006 that she had committed some form of “fornication.”
Surgeon to pay $800,000 to settle slander suit
By:
Nora Tooher
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: slander, surgeon
A Las Vegas surgeon recently convicted of a federal felony has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a slander suit filed against him by another doctor.
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