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Article: Sharper Image to Pay Consumer Reports
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- February 11, 2005
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DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-11-2005
Dateline: SAN FRANCISCO
The Sharper Image has agreed to pay the publisher of Consumer Reports $525,000 to cover the amount the magazine spent in successfully defending itself against the specialty retailer's libel lawsuit.
The settlement announced Thursday comes three months after a federal judge here tossed a lawsuit alleging the magazine printed false and malicious articles in 2002 and 2003 about the company's Ionic Breeze Quadra Silent Air Purifier.
Consumers Union has stood by its magazine's reports, which said its tests of the heavily advertised machine "found almost no measurable reduction in airborne particles."
In throwing out ...