ABC News has reached a settlement with a South Dakota meat producer that filed a $1.9-billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on the company’s lean, finely textured beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime,” the TV network said Wednesday, adding that the terms of the deal are confidential.
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.
A journey to South Dakota to hear arguments over whether preconceived negative spin in the media should result in massive punishments.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — ABC’s news anchor Diane Sawyer, two of the network’s correspondents and other defendants in a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against the company related to its […]
Beef Products Inc. has sued the network for defamation, seeking $1.2 billion in damages, after it claims ABC’s coverage led to the closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs by misleading consumers that the finely textured meat product is unsafe.
Federal judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from hearing the defamation lawsuit filed by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on Good Morning America.
Exclusives
Beef Products Inc. is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for what it claims are roughly 200 “false and misleading and defamatory” statements about the product officially known as lean, finely textured beef.
