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The current Act is the Defamation Act 1992 which came into force on 1 February 1993 and repealed the Defamation Act 1954. [81] New Zealand law allows for the following remedies in an action for defamation: compensatory damages; an injunction to stop further publication; a correction or a retraction; and in certain cases, punitive damages.
In no state can a defamation claim be successfully maintained if the allegedly defamed person is deceased. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 generally immunizes from liability parties that create fora on the Internet in which defamation occurs from liability for statements published by third parties. This has the effect of ...
Defamation – The communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual, that may harm the reputation of an entity. Libel – Written defamation; Slander – Spoken defamation
The legal rule itself – how to apply this exception – is complicated, as it is often dependent on who said the statement and which actor it was directed towards. [6] The analysis is thus different if the government or a public figure is the target of the false statement (where the speech may get more protection) than a private individual who is being attacked over a matter of their private ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified posts on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that falsely placed the man at a ...
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Some U.S. state courts have ruled that false light lawsuits brought under their states' laws must be rewritten as defamation lawsuits; these courts generally base their opinion on the premises that a) any publication or statement giving rise to a false-light claim will also give rise to a defamation claim, such that the set of statements ...
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 ...