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2015年5月10日

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Reuters

US jury clears HBO of libel in India child labour story

 A US jury cleared HBO of libel claims...in a lawsuit brought against the Time Warner Inc subsidiary by a British sporting goods company over a report linking it to child labour in India...Mitre Sports International..sued HBO for defamation in October 2008, after a report called “Children of Industry” aired on the broadcaster’s news programme “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”..At the trial..in US District Court in Manhattan, Mitre’s lawyers were seeking “tens of millions of dollars” for damages they claimed the company suffered after the report portrayed it as using or turning a blind eye to child labour making Mitre football balls in India...Lloyd Constantine, a lawyer for Mitre, said it was not immediately clear if the company would seek to overturn the jury’s decision on appeal....We are delighted with the jury’s decision,” HBO spokesman Ray Stallone said in a statement. “This case was without merit.”