Product libel

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New York court finds scientific hypotheses are not libelous

Raymond Baldino | Libel | News | May 25, 2012
News
May 25, 2012

A federal court in Buffalo said last week that peer-reviewed journals, not courtrooms, are the proper place to vet scientific disputes. A libel claim brought by ONY, Inc., against the Journal of Perinatology for a negative study of an ONY pharmaceutical product was dismissed.