USA: Dole Food Sues Makers of ‘Bananas!*’ Documentary for Defamation

July 9, 2009 - Bloomberg

Dole Food Co., the world’s biggest fresh fruit and vegetable producer, sued the makers of “Bananas!*” saying the documentary movie about a 2007 trial brought by Nicaraguan farm workers was “blatantly false.” The documentary, shown last month at the Los Angeles Film Festival, “promotes as fact a false story that was adjudicated a fraud on Dole and on California’s courts before the film ... read more...