As if arresting George Michael in a toilet wasn't enough, police officer Marcelo Rodriguez went on to sue him for slander after Michael satirised the incident in a video and made comments alleging that the police officer had used entrapment.
Surely this opens the door for Marmite to argue copyright infringement and every Australian male to claim slander for the line "the beer does flow and men chunder"?
For nearly 30 years it has worked to deliberately confuse the public, slander scientists, and sabotage science.
In a TV debate with Mr Gasparovic, he ventured the following view of the challenger: "First you lick my arse, and then you slander me".
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
Mr de Villepin, already reeling from defeat on the streets over his labour reforms, told a raucous parliament this week that he was "profoundly shocked and hurt" by the "campaign of slander and lies" against him.
Prosecutors have asked for an 18-month suspended sentence against Mr de Villepin for complicity in slander, and jail terms for two others.
Despite the waste and folly of its bureaucracy, despite the slander and polarisation of its election campaigns, America's system of government is extraordinarily robust and flexible.
The 53,000 dark-suited, white-shirted, tie-wearing Mormon missionaries who fish for souls around the world can seem like America personified: earnest, friendly, optimistic, fond of Jesus and eager to tell you about it.Ruthless campaign strategists now have an incentive to slander MormonismYet many Americans have doubts about Mormonism.
It is mere "slander" to claim anything else, says Mr Ibarretxe, who readily repeats what he said when he took office again, that the defeat of terrorism is his first task.So ETA for all that it can still hit back, as it did with a car-bomb at Madrid airport last month is on its last legs, is it?
Mr Pisapia furiously denied her claim and announced plans to sue for slander.
