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Defamation
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Media Law Prof Blog
Furor Over AutoAdmit Continues
The outrage over the discussion board "AutoAdmit", founded by Anthony Ciolli, a University of Pennsylvania law student and Jarret Cohen, an insurance salesman, has hit the Chronicle of Higher Education…
Media Law Prof Blog
Winslet Wins Defamation Action
Actress Kate Winslet won a defamation action today in a London court against the magazine Grazia, which had printed an item only last month stating that she had sought for…
Legal Pad
Legal Reality Bites Screenwriter
For most of us, the release of a 10th anniversary DVD means bloopers and behind-the-scenes commentary. For screenwriter Helen Childress, it meant another chance to be sued — for defamation…
California Employment Law Update
Former Employee’s Anti-SLAPP Motion Should Have Been Granted
By Tony Oncidi
Christian Research Inst. v. Alnor, 2007 WL 602954 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 28, 2007) William Alnor, a former employee of the Christian Research Institute (CRI), maintains a website that reports…
Media Law Prof Blog
Conrad Black Sues Over Book
Conrad Black is back in court, but this time he's the plaintiff, and he is suing over Tom Bower's biography of him, which he alleges is"vindictive, high-handed, contemptuous, sadistic, pathologically…
Media Law Prof Blog
That Kiss, That Kiss: And Cameron Diaz Gets a Settlement From the National Enquirer
Cameron Diaz, who sued in the British courts over that National Enquirer story that she kissed the married Shane Nickerson in an improper way, has gotten "substantial" damages from the…
Communications, Media & Entertainment
Newspaper Was Entitled to Summary Judgment in Defamation Suit
In Cox Newspapers, L.P. v. Penick, a media defendant's interlocutory appeal from an order partially denying summary judgment, the Third Court of Appeals has held that a former Bastrop County…
ContractsProf Blog
Tuscaloosa Wins Breach of Contract case
The first time this New Yorker heard the about "Tuscaloosa" was in David Epstein's BarBri lecture on contracts. Thus, I read this breach of contract story in the Tuscaloosa News…
Labor Law Prof Blog
To Give an Honest Reference or Not
The March issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine gives this advice to employers who are asked for a job reference concerning poor performing former employees:In these litigious times, employment lawyers…
Media Law Prof Blog
Barclay Brothers, Times, Settle Defamation Dispute
Do you remember that defamation action filed in a French court by the Barclay brothers against the Times of London? The brothers objected to a Times article that characterized their…