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2. United States defamation law - Wikipedia

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   However, 23 states and two territories have criminal defamation/libel/slander laws on the books, along with one state (Iowa) establishing defamation/libel as a criminal offense through case law (without statutorily defined crime) and with one state (South Dakota) whose Constitution allows the possibility of criminal litigation against such ...

3. Defamation - Wikipedia

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   Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...

4. English defamation law - Wikipedia

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   Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law.The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been relatively frequent as far back as the Statute of Gloucester in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). [1]

5. Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc. was a decision by the California Court of Appeal, which ruled that the "actual malice" required under California law for imposition of punitive damages is distinct from the "actual malice" required by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan to be liable for defaming a "public figure", and that the National Enquirer is not a "newspaper" for the purposes of ...

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8. Personal jurisdiction over international defendants in the ...

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   The court found that all of the following acts, in combination, were sufficient contacts to create personal jurisdiction over the French organizations: sending letters to Yahoo!, suing Yahoo! and serving Yahoo! in California, and the suit resulting in orders that Yahoo!'s officers in California comply with French law.

9. A showdown between Mexico and American gun companies hits the ...

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   Accusations of drug cartel alliances and White House slander ... the law Congress passed in 2005 following efforts by local governments to sue gun makers for the harms caused by gun violence ...