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Defamation
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TortsProf Blog
“Iniuria and the Common Law”
Hart Publishing has just published "Iniuria and the Common Law," edited by Eric Descheemaeker and Helen Scott. The book description states:The delict of iniuria is among the most sophisticated products…
Alabama Employment Law Report
Birmingham Blogger Sued For Defamation After Accusing Woman Of Affair With AG
Although a public record, I am not going to name the plaintiff in the lawsuit filed against Roger Shuler, who publishes the "Legal Schnauzer Blog". Shuler states on his blog that he is located in…
Media Law Prof Blog
Remedies For Defamation
David S. Ardia, University of North Carolia, Chapel Hill, School of Law, is publishing Freedom of Speech, Defamation, and Injunctionsin the William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the abstract.It…
Global Media and Communications Watch
UK: Defamation case provides ‘trial run’ of the future position on trial by jury
By Julia Marlow
A recent defamation decision, Christopher McGrath v Independent Print Limited [2013] EWCH 2202 (QB) provides some insight into the future availability of jury trials once the Defamation Act 2013 removes…
SDNY Blog
Judge Oetken Dismisses Claims in Biro Defamation Lawsuit Relating to New Yorker Article
In the defamation action stemming from a 2010 New Yorker profile of Peter Paul Biro (a specialist in art authentication through fingerprint analysis who was featured in the documentary Who…
Socially Aware Blog
TheDirty.com Goes to Trial
In 2012, we reported on a pair of district court decisions that, based on similar facts, split on whether defendant TheDirty.com, a gossip website, qualified for immunity under Section 230…
Media Law Prof Blog
Group Libel Under US and UK Law
Alan D. Miller, University of Haifa Faculty of Law & Department of Economics, and Ronen Perry, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, have published A Group's a Group, No Matter…
Media Law Prof Blog
Libel Tourism In the Australian Legal Regime
David Rolph, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published Splendid Isolation? Australia as a Destination for 'Libel Tourism'at 19 Australian International Law Journal 79 (2012). Here is the abstract.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Asiana Airlines Plans Suit Against KTVU Over Broadcast Of Offensive, False Names
Asiana Airlines says it will pursue a lawsuit against KTVU, the tv station that mistakenly aired offensive names it identified as the names of the four flight crew of the…
Inside Global Tech
Italian Court Finds that Wikimedia is Not Liable for Defamatory Comments
By Dan Cooper
By Dan Cooper and Oliver Grazebrook On 20 June 2103, the Court of Rome in Italy ruled that the Wikimedia Foundation (the charitable organisation that operates Wikipedia) could not be…