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The Court held, on a 6–3 vote, in favor of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, ruling that proof of "actual malice" was necessary in product disparagement cases raising First Amendment issues, as set out by the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). The Court ruled that the First Circuit Court of Appeals had ...
The case went to trial in June, 2017. Under South Dakota's Agricultural Food Products Disparagement Act, BPI could have received as much as $5.7 billion in statutory trebled damages were ABC News found liable. [18] [19] After the case had been tried for only three out of the expected eight weeks, ABC News and BPI reached a settlement of $177 ...
Gibson's Bakery is a fifth-generation family business established in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1885. [5] [6] Half of the city's 8,000 residents are students or employees—3,000 and 1,000 respectively—of Oberlin College. [7]
In a 5-2 decision Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court said victims of defamation should get more time to pursue lawsuits.
The complaint — filed by StandWithUs, the Anti-Defamation League and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law — alleges that Jewish students at Ohio State have "faced a litany ...
The case was brought by Marlean Ames, a straight woman who alleged that the Ohio Department of Youth Services discriminated against her on the basis of sexual orientation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [3] She had worked in the department since 2004. In 2017, Ames was reassigned to a new supervisor, who was a lesbian ...
Although federal courts often hear tort cases arising out of common law or state statutes, there are relatively few tort claims that arise exclusively as a result of federal law. The most common federal tort claim is the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 remedy for violation of one's civil rights under color of federal or state law, which can be used to sue ...
Castillo v. Case Farms of Ohio; Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Texas: Full case name: Gerardo Castillo, et. al. v. Case Farms of Ohio, Inc., et. al. Decided: December 1, 1999: Docket nos. 97-cv-89: Citation: 96 F. Supp. 2d 578: Holding; Labor Agency is an agent for farm. Farm is liable for wrongful actions of ...