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Defamation
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Legal Profession Blog
Post-Judgment Actions Lead To Disbarment
The Maryland Court of Appeals has disbarred an attorney who was a co-plaintiff (with his spouse) in a defamation action. The defendants countersued and secured a judgment for approximately $386,000.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Law Prof Plaintiff Drops Suit Against Blog
University of Miami Law prof Donald Jones has dropped a false light lawsuit against the blog Above the Law less than two weeks after filing it. Professor Jones objected to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Griffith on The NLRA Defamation Defense
Kati Griffith (Cornell - ILR) has just posted on SSRN her article in the American University Law Review: The NLRA Defamation Defense: Doomed Dinosaur or Diamond in the Rough?Here is…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Money In Online Harassment
Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina School of Law, has published "Internet Defamation as Profit Center: The Monetization of Online Harassment," in volume 32 of the Harvard Journal of Law…
Media Law Prof Blog
Kate Winslet Gets Apologies, Damages Over Daily Mail Story
The Daily Mail is apologizing and will pay actress Kate Winslet twenty-five thousand pounds in damages for printing a story that alleged that she lied about how much she exercises.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Debbie Rowe Wants Default Judgment In Defamation Case
Debbie Rowe, the ex-wife of the late Michael Jackson, has asked a court to grant her a default judgmenet against Rebecca White, whom Ms. Rowe claims made defamatory statements concerning…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Test For an Interluctory Injunction in Australian Defamation Law
David Rolph, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published "Showing Restraint: Interlocutory Injunctions in Defamation Cases," at 14 Media and Arts Law Review 255 (2009). Here is the abstract.The proper…
CommLawBlog
In Your Face(book), Defamation Plaintiffs
Judge comes down for Facebook in defamation action We've previously written about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a statute which immunizes an “interactive” content provider or other…
Media Law Prof Blog
Dole Abandons Lawsuit Against Filmmaker of “Bananas!”
The Dole Company has abandoned its defamation lawsuit against the director of Bananas!, the documentary that followed the 2007 lawsuit brought by workers at a Dole-operated plantation in Nicaragua. The…
Media Law Prof Blog
Russian Judge Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Paper
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili has lost his defamation suit against the newspaper Novaya Gazeta. The plaintiff, a descendant of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, had claimed that the paper libeled his grandfather by…