Winslet awarded damages over diet story
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Kate Winslet was awarded substantial libel damages Friday after a British magazine wrongly stated that she had visited a diet doctor. The 31-year-old actress, known for her criticism of excessive dieting, wasn't at London's High Court for the hearing on an article published last month by women's magazine Grazia.
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George Galloway was awarded substantial libel damages from the Daily Telegraph after the broadsheet accused the MP of receiving secret payments from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British actress Kate Winslet, an outspoken critic of what she sees as Hollywood's obsession with being skinny, has won a public apology and undisclosed libel damages from a magazine that reported she visited a diet doctor.
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Welsh starlet Catherine Zeta-Jones is looking for damages again - this time from an American strip club. The actress is upset that the The Spice House in Reno, Nevada used her picture on its website and has sued.
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A California jury has awarded more  than $300,000 in compensatory damages in a sexual harassment  suit filed against FedEx Corp. on behalf of two female  employees, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs said on Friday.
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British actress Keira Knightley, star of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film trilogy, won 3,000 pounds ($5,965) in libel damages on Thursday over a newspaper slur that she was excessively thin.
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Comedian Russell Brand accepts damages over claims a girl was drugged and raped during a party at his flat.
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Actress Kate Winslet has spoken out against the proliferation of "size zero" female celebrities.
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US man who ate two bags of popcorn a day for years to sue people who gave him his fix
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Appeals court says punitive award against Philip Morris is still &#39;excessive&#39; and must be halved. LOS ANGELES  - A California appeals court has ruled that a smoker&#39;s $3 billion punitive damages award
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A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages Wednesday to a woman who received HIV treatments for almost nine years before discovering she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.
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A couple who contended that a hormone-replacement drug caused the woman's breast cancer was awarded $1.5 million Monday in a jury verdict against drug maker Wyeth.
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A former nanny to Vogue editor Anna Wintour will receive &#36;2.2 million for brain damage she suffered from breathing chemicals used to remove slogans painted on the editor's home by animal rights activists, according to details of a settlement announced on Tuesday.
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California and 10 local prosecutors have reached a $1 million settlement with diet-pill maker Nutraquest Inc., which was accused of using deceptive techniques to sell weight-loss products that contained ephedra.
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George Best's sister and her husband win damages over a story about the support they gave the ill soccer legend.
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Actress Cameron Diaz won a public apology and "substantial" libel damages at London's High Court on Friday over claims she had been caught in a "passionate clinch" with a television producer.
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*The BALCO drama got a shot in the thigh yesterday with Wednesdayâs defamation lawsuit filed by track star Marion Jones against BALCO head Victor Conte, who told ABCâs â20/20â that he gave her steroids and watched her inject herself with them.