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Defamation
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The Right Coast
The Washington Post published a smear suggesting author JD Vance was a white supremacist
The Washinton Post published a piece by Marissa Brostoff which attempts to link white nationalists to the pro-life movement. Brostoff makes the case that some white nationalists have embraced the…
Reverse & Render
Fifth Circuit Holds That the TCPA Does Not Apply in Federal Courts
Resolving a longstanding uncertainty in federal district courts, the Fifth Circuit has held that the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA) conflicts with federal procedural rules and therefore does not apply…
Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog
Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Defamation Suit Spawned from Contentious Divorce
By Peter S. Lubin, Patrick Austermuehle
Divorce proceedings can be contentious but some can be more contentious than others. In the case of disbarred McHenry County lawyer, Mark McCombs, a contentious divorce led to his filing…
Religion Clause
California Priest Sues Accusers In Defamation Lawsuit
A defamation lawsuit was filed earlier this month in a California state trial court by Fresno, California, Catholic priest Msgr. Craig Harrison who has been accused of sexually assaulting an altar…
The Faculty Lounge
The Verdict against Oberlin
Earlier this summer, a court in Lorain County, Ohio, entered a $25 million judgment against Oberlin College -- reduced from the jury's award of $44 million -- in a defamation…
Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog
Appellate Court Allows Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against The New York Times to Move Foward
By Peter S. Lubin, Patrick Austermuehle
Testimonies are generally reserved for trials, so when the editor of The New York Times, James Bennet, testified before a judge who was deciding whether to dismiss a case, the…
Media Law Prof Blog
District Court Dismisses Arpaio Defamation Suit Against New York Times
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has dismissed Joe Arpaio's defamation suit against the New York Times. In a short ruling, Judge Amit P. Mehta held that…
Simple Justice
Anglin’s Default
If there’s any single person whose conduct could single-handedly make me disavow the First Amendment, it would be Andrew Anglin. a neo-Nazi whose website, the Daily Stormer, may have been…
PrawfsBlawg
Second Circuit revives Palin defamation suit
Main Tuesday, August 06, 2019Second Circuit revives Palin defamation suitDecision here. I wrote about the case here.The court of appeals correctly criticized the district court's weird use of an evidentiary…
SDNY Blog
In Reviving Sarah Palin’s Suit Against the Times, Second Circuit Rejects Use of Evidentiary Hearings on Motions to Dismiss
In an opinion today, the Second Circuit revived Sarah Palin’s suit accusing The New York Times of defaming her in an editorial suggesting that her political action committee’s use of “stylized…