Hustler Magazine v Jerry Falwell
- Jerry Falwell, a nationally known minister, sued the publisher of Hustler Magazine, Larry Flynt, over a "parody" featuring the respondent that appeared in the November 1983 issue of the magazine.
- http://www.oyez.org/cases/case/?case=1980-1989/1987/1987_86_1278

Media Defamation.org
- Complaint about the unauthorized use of pictures from a matchmaking website in a broadcast news expose on immigration scams.
- http://www.mediadefamation.org/

John Peter Zenger Trial
- Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal, was brought to trial and charged with seditious libel against New York Colonial Governor William Cosby.
- http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zenger.html

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery, Alabama, brought suit in a state court alleging that he had been libeled by an advertisement in corporate petitioner's newspaper, the text of which appeared over the names of the four individual petitioners a
- http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/nytvsullivan.html

Hamilton v. Al Fayed
- Mr Hamilton, the former Tory MP, sued Harrods boss Mr al-Fayed over allegations Mr Fayed made in a Channel 4 programme that Mr Hamilton had accepted cash from him to ask parliamentary questions on his behalf.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/hamilton/

David John Cadwell Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd. & Deborah E. Lipstadt
- British historian David Irving brought a case against Jewish activist Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin, claiming that her work, 'Denying the Holocaust', libeled him.
- http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/

Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Limited and Others
- Mr. Reynolds, former Taoiseach of Ireland, sued Times Newspapers Ltd. for the contents of an article they published about him sub-headed 'Why a fib too far proved fatal for the political career of Ireland's peacemaker and Mr. Fixit'.
- http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd991028/rey01.htm