date:Nov 09, 2012
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According to multiple news sources, the BPI lawsuit is seeking damages under South Dakota defamation law and a 1994 state law that allows businesses to sue anyone who knowingly spreads false information that a food product is unsafe.
Along with ABC News and its parent company, the suit named ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer and correspondents Jim Avila and David Kerley as defendants.
It also named Gerald Zirnstein, the USDA microbiologist who first called the pro