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    Newsweek Vs IAC 142 SCRA 171

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    The sugarcane planters in Negros Occidental filed a class suit against Newsweek Inc. for an article published that portrayed the island as dominated by exploitative sugarcane landowners. Newsweek filed a motion to dismiss arguing the article was not libelous and the complaint failed to state a cause of action. The court ruled in favor of Newsweek, finding that while the article may have referred to sugarcane landowners as a group, it did not refer to or damage the reputation of any individual planter named in the complaint.

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    The sugarcane planters in Negros Occidental filed a class suit against Newsweek Inc. for an article published that portrayed the island as dominated by exploitative sugarcane landowners. Newsweek filed a motion to dismiss arguing the article was not libelous and the complaint failed to state a cause of action. The court ruled in favor of Newsweek, finding that while the article may have referred to sugarcane landowners as a group, it did not refer to or damage the reputation of any individual planter named in the complaint.

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    The sugarcane planters in Negros Occidental filed a class suit against Newsweek Inc. for an article published that portrayed the island as dominated by exploitative sugarcane landowners. Newsweek filed a motion to dismiss arguing the article was not libelous and the complaint failed to state a cause of action. The court ruled in favor of Newsweek, finding that while the article may have referred to sugarcane landowners as a group, it did not refer to or damage the reputation of any individual planter named in the complaint.

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    Newsweek Vs IAC 142 SCRA 171

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    The sugarcane planters in Negros Occidental filed a class suit against Newsweek Inc. for an article published that portrayed the island as dominated by exploitative sugarcane landowners. Newsweek filed a motion to dismiss arguing the article was not libelous and the complaint failed to state a cause of action. The court ruled in favor of Newsweek, finding that while the article may have referred to sugarcane landowners as a group, it did not refer to or damage the reputation of any individual planter named in the complaint.

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    NEWSWEEK INC VS IAC

    [May 30, 1986]


    FERIA, J.
    Doctrine/subject: Class Suit
    FACTS:
    Incorporated Associations of Sugarcane planters in Negros Occidental filed a case in
    behalf of all sugarcane planters against Newsweek Inc. The complaint alleges that the petitioner
    committed libel against them due to the publication of an article entitled An Island of Fear in
    their magazine. The article supposedly portrayed the island as a place dominated by big
    landowners or sugarcane planters who exploited the sugarcane laborers. They claim that the
    article showed a malicious use of falsehood, slanted presentation and misrepresentation of
    facts, putting them in a bad light, expose them to public ridicule, discredit and humiliation here in
    the Philippines and abroad, and make them objects of hatred, contempt and hostility of their
    agricultural workers and of the public in general. Petitioner filed a motion to dismiss on the
    grounds that the article sued is not actionable in fact and in law, and that the complaint is bereft
    of allegations that state, much less support a cause of action. Petitioners motion was denied by
    the trial court.
    ISSUE:
    Whether or not the private respondents complaint failed to state a cause of action
    RULING:
    YES, the complaint of the private respondents failed to state a cause. The complaint made no
    allegation that anything contained in the article referred specifically to any one of the private
    respondents. Libel can be committed only against individual reputation. in cases where libel is
    claimed to have been directed at a group, there is actionable defamation only if the libel can be
    said to reach beyond the mere collectivity to do damage to a specific, individual group member's
    reputation.

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