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Changes in media practices figure in beef defamation trial

By Dan Flynn on June 7, 2017

Elk Point population sign credit Dan FlynnELK POINT, SD — Apple growers sued CBS News 28 years ago over just one segment on “60 Minutes” about the chemical Alar that aired on Feb. 26, 1989, and Texas cattlemen sued Oprah 21…
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How LFTB gained USDA approval disputed on first day of trial

By Dan Flynn on June 6, 2017

Referred to as the biggest defamation trial in U.S. history, the case of BPI v. ABC News opened Monday in the basement of Union County Court House in Elk Point, SD.…
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Jury selection begins May 31 in Siouxland for ‘trial of century’

By Dan Flynn on May 23, 2017

siouxland_406x250The region where the borders of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska meet is called “Siouxland.” It has been ever since 20th Century novelist Frederick Manfred, who wrote the acclaimed “Lord Grizzly” and 21 other…
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BPI drops some defendants from ‘pink slime’ civil action

By News Desk on August 22, 2016

ABC news reporters Diane Sawyer and Jim Avila and American Broadcasting Companies Inc. remain as defendants in $1.2 billion lawsuit brought by Beef Products Inc. in Dakota Dunes, SD.   However, the beef company that pioneered…
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BPI v. ABC scheduled for jury trial in June 2017 in tiny SD town

By Dan Flynn on August 2, 2016

A tentative date of June 2017 has been set for the start of the jury trial in a South Dakota state court over the “pink slime” dispute known as BPI v. ABC. BPI sued ABC…
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