BPI ACCEPTS SETTLEMENT IN DEFAMATION CASE

摘要

On the 18~(th) day of the $1.9 billion libel and defamation case brought by Beef Products Inc. (BPI) against ABC News and Jim Avila over the coverage the news outlet broadcast about the processing company's production of what ABC referred to as "pink slime," jurors and observers in the court were told the case had been settled. According to a Sioux City Journal report on June 28, Circuit Court Judge Cheryle Gering announced the case had been settled the morning of June 28. On June 27, just after convening in the morning, the court was sent home after being told a "major legal issue" had come up.