Dole sues `Bananas!' documentary filmmaker for defamation, seeks to stop film showing. Dole Foods sued a Swedish filmmaker and his film company for defamation on Wednesday, alleging he insisted on showing his documentary, "Bananas!" at the Los Angeles Film Festival after learning it was based on a fraud.

Dole sues "Bananas!" documentary filmmaker for defamation, seeks to stop film showing. Dole Foods sued a Swedish filmmaker and his film company for defamation on Wednesday, alleging he insisted on showing his documentary, "Bananas!" at the Los Angeles Film Festival after learning it was based on a fraud.

Dole sues "Bananas!" documentary filmmaker for defamation, seeks to stop film showing. Dole Foods has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Swedish filmmaker for insisting on showing his documentary "Bananas!" at the Los Angeles Film Festival after learning it was based on a fraud.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dole Food Company Inc filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against Swedish film makers it accuses of knowingly including "patent falsehoods" in a documentary about Nicaraguan banana workers who sued Dole for allegedly exposing them to pesticides on its plantations.

Documentary on banana workers draws ire of Dole after plot thickens. A documentary on Nicaraguan banana workers who claimed they became sterile from pesticides is set for its American premiere on Saturday ? unless a threatened lawsuit stops the show.

A California judge signed a dismissal order Wednesday detailing the massive fraud perpetrated against U.S. food giant Dole designed to collect billions of dollars through false claims of harm to Nicaraguan banana plantation workers.

Lawyer ordered to appear at contempt hearing over role in alleged scheme to defraud Dole. A lawyer accused of taking part in a scheme to extort Dole food company for billions of dollars is under orders to appear at a contempt hearing Wednesday.

Judge refers LA lawyer to State Bar and other agencies for prosecution in Dole fraud. A judge said Friday that she's referring a Los Angeles lawyer to federal prosecutors and the State Bar over his involvement in lawsuits that she found were part of a massive fraud by purported Nicaraguan banana workers against U.S. food giant Dole.

Judge refers LA lawyer to State Bar and other agencies for prosecution in Dole fraud. A judge said Friday that she's referring a Los Angeles lawyer to federal prosecutors and the State Bar over his involvement in lawsuits that she found were part of a massive fraud by purported Nicaraguan banana workers against U.S. food giant Dole.