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 ...

South Dakota meat processor Beef Products Inc. alleges ABC erroneously reported that its beef product, dubbed “pink slime” by critics, was unsafe, not healthy and not even meat, costing it hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A South Dakota meat processor’s $1.9 billion lawsuit against ABC News began this week in a closely watched case that could have an impact beyond the size of any judgment. In a South Dakota courtroom ...

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 ...

ELK POINT, S.D. -- South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc has settled its closely watched defamation lawsuit against the ABC television network over news reports on its processed beef product that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meat packer blames ABC's 'pink slime' for nearly killing company ELK POINT, S.D./CHICAGO - ABC News' characterization of a South Dakota meat processor's ground-beef product as "pink slime" almost put ...