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Zenger's case also established that libel cases, though they were civil rather than criminal cases, could be heard by a jury, which would have the authority to rule on the allegations and to set the amount of monetary damages awarded. [4] The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was designed specifically to protect freedom of the press.
The case gained worldwide attention and is often said, inaccurately, to be the first of its kind. A similar case that predates Dow Jones v Gutnick is Berezovsky v Michaels in England. [118] Australia's first Twitter defamation case to go to trial is believed to be Mickle v Farley.
The crime of scandalum magnatum (insulting the peers of the realm through slander or libel) [6] was established by the Statute of Westminster 1275, c. 34, [7] but the first instance of criminal libel is generally agreed to be the De Libellis Famosis case, [8] tried in the Star Chamber in the reign of James I by Edward Coke who, in his judgement ...
Substantial truth is a legal doctrine affecting libel and slander laws in common law ... A defendant using truth as a defence in a defamation case is not required to ...
American singer Chris Brown filed a legal complaint for defamation on Thursday after a woman accused him of rape in Paris, his lawyer said. Brown, 29, denied the accusation. "Chris Brown has ...
Amanda Knox on Wednesday was reconvicted of slander for wrongly accusing an innocent bar owner of having a hand in the 2007 murder of her roommate.
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restrict the ability of public officials to sue for defamation.
Sep. 23—Manchester Police have concluded their investigation into a criminal slander complaint brought against a city resident by an alderman over derogatory social-media posts, determining ...