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Jury trial begins today in BPI v. ABC on the saga of ‘pink slime’

By Dan Flynn on June 5, 2017

ELK POINT, SD — A 12-member jury and four alternates, including 11 women and five men, are ready to hear opening arguments today in a $1.9 billion defamation trial scheduled to last eight weeks here…
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Publisher’s Platform: Blue Barf, Green Goop, Purple Puke, Red Rubbish or Yellow Yuck

By Bill Marler on June 4, 2017

Given the BPI v. ABC trial starts this week, I thought it would be good to repost an Op-Ed I penned in April 2012.

truthWhat if you were the CEO of a multimillion dollar,…
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SD jury trial in BPI v ABC to start June 5, but without Diane Sawyer

By News Desk on March 16, 2017
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ABC Broadcasting and on-air reporter Jim Avila are being ordered to face a Union County, SD jury over a $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by…
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Letter From the Editor: BPI vs. ABC News

By Dan Flynn on March 30, 2014

I like a good trial as much as the next guy. Late last week, South Dakota Circuit Judge Cheryle Gering said she was not going to dismiss Beef Products Inc.’s $1.2-billion lawsuit against ABC News.
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BPI v. ABC Remanded Back to South Dakota Courts

By Dan Flynn on June 14, 2013

Would Diane Sawyer hanging around tiny Elk Point, SD for a state Circuit Court trial be even more of a spectacle than in 1998 when Oprah Winfrey had to spent most of a week in…
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Internal Emails Reveal FSIS Was Divided on 'Pink Slime'

By Gretchen Goetz on April 8, 2013

By Helena Bottemiller and Gretchen Goetz By March of last year, lean finely textured beef (LFTB) had reached celebrity status under the unfavorable moniker “pink slime.” The product—which is made by centrifuging slightly heated fatty …
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Ex-BPI Employee Sues Media Over LFTB Controversy

By James Andrews on December 13, 2012

A former Beef Products Inc. employee has filed a civil lawsuit against a number of media sources, alleging that they “willfully and maliciously” spread false and misleading statements about BPI’s beef filler known as lean…
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BPI and Pink Slime: An Updated Timeline

By News Desk on September 17, 2012

In the Spring of 2012, a beef product called “Lean Finely Textured Beef,” an ingredient in an estimated 70 percent of America’s ground beef, came under fire because the meat — which is pulled from…
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Alar Apples Case Precedence for BPI v. ABC

By Dan Flynn on September 14, 2012

The most important food product disparagement case to come before Beef Products Inc. v. ABC was dropped into the “in” basket at South Dakota’s First Judicial District in Elk Point, SD. Like this latest case,…
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