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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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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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Union County Courthouse, Elk Point, SD

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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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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‘Pink Slime’ Lawsuit Gets Green Light for Trial As Product Demand Returns

By Dan Flynn on May 30, 2014

Lean, finely textured beef (LFTB) is back, and the lawsuit one of its producers has going against ABC News is not going away. It hasn’t been for lack of trying. ABC tried to get the…
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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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