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A federal jury awarded E. Jean Carroll more than $80 million last month in her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. The path to that verdict was anything but straightforward ...
August 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM. A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived Sarah Palin 's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, finding several major issues "impugn the reliability" of the ...
The defamation lawsuit brought by voting machine company Smartmatic against Newsmax over its reporting about the 2020 election will head to trial, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Eric C. Davis ...
Defamation Roberts-Smith v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited was a 2023 decision of the Federal Court of Australia which found that articles written by journalists Nick McKenzie , Chris Masters and David Wroe alleging Victoria Cross for Australia awardee Ben Roberts-Smith committed murder and other war crimes in Afghanistan were not ...
United States defamation law. The origins of the United States ' defamation laws pre-date the American Revolution; one influential case in 1734 involved John Peter Zenger and established precedent that "The Truth" is an absolute defense against charges of libel. Though the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect freedom ...
Defamation. Actual malice. Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network (colloquially Dominion v. Fox) was a U.S. defamation lawsuit filed in March 2021 by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Channel and its corporate parent Fox Corporation. Dominion's complaint sought US$1.6 billion in damages, alleging several Fox programs had broadcast ...
By Jonathan Stempel. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sarah Palin on Wednesday won her bid for a new trial against the New York Times over an editorial that the former Alaska governor said was defamatory. The ...
I, XIV. 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. [1][2] The decision held that if a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit is a public ...