The suit involves charges of libel, slander or malicious falsehoods, a spokeswoman for Olam said.
The verdict against Mr. Ramazanzadeh coincided with other action against reformist politicians, who were mostly accused of vague charges of libel and slander against bodies controlled by hard-liners close to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Overstock.com, which sells discount clothing, books and household supplies, sued Gradient, a research firm, and a hedge fund manager, David A. Rocker, last August in a California state court, leveling charges of libel and unfair business practices.
Dismissing charges of libel, the judges said it was well known that, in RAI, "even the most meritorious individuals are favoured by their acquaintanceships in political circles".Italian commentators call RAI the "mirror of the nation": an institution so permeated by competing interests that it sometimes anticipates political shifts even before they surface.
It was the coldest day of the year, five degrees Fahrenheit, and at the public square Chistye Prudy speaker after speaker got up to talk about the work that the lawyer Markelov had done on behalf of nascent independent unions, opposition journalists (he had defended Politkovskaya against charges of libel), and anti-Fascist activists.
Earlier this week, Spyros Karatzaferis, a broadcast journalist, was arrested on charges of libel after he threatened to reveal what he said were classified documents obtained by hackers involving the bailout agreement between Greece and its so-called Troika of lenders: the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission.
In May 2015 the former president of the youth wing, Meseret Bahlbi, filed a charge of libel and slander over the article.
In English libel law (Scotland's is different), the fact that the public has an interest in knowing about something offers only a limited defence against a charge of libel.
LATE last month Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist in Belarus, was indicted on a charge of libel against the country's president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, after publishing a series of articles that questioned the execution of two men convicted of bombing a Minsk subway station.
Peter Wilmshurst is a medical academic who is currently defending himself against a charge of libel brought in London by a US company over comments he made to an US journalist working for a US publication about a US trial he was involved in.
Blasphemy, after all, is a charge of libel against someone who doesn't objectively exist and shouldn't be equated with religious violence or discrimination: there is a world of difference between beating someone up because they're wearing a turban and a comedian joking that a figure who died two millennia ago might have been 'a bit gay'.
