10 May, 2023 5 Takeaways from the Dominion v. Fox Settlement By Molly Rothschild Now that the dust has (sort of) settled at Fox News and the anchors have played a bit of musical chairs, it’s time to unpack the historic...
25 Apr, 2023 California Lawmakers Vote in Favor of Defamation Protection for Sexual Assault Survivors By Nicole Bergstrom Following the #MeToo movement, experts noted an uptick in defamation lawsuits against accusers. These lawsuits are typically brought by...
06 Apr, 2023 Dominion v. Fox Defamation Suit Heads to Trial By Molly Rothschild Last week, Judge Davis of the Delaware Superior Court delivered a major blow to Fox News in the Dominion v. Fox defamation case, sending...
15 Feb, 2023 10 Things You Should Know About the Dominion v. Fox Defamation Case By Molly Rothschild Take yourself back. It’s Election night in America 2020 (night five or maybe seven?). No president has been elected. The networks scream...
23 Mar, 2022 Migrating Online Forum to New Platform to Avoid Russian Censorship Qualifies as Fair Use By Brian Murphy Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts, is a groovy place. Between 2010 and 2017, a group of its residents used the Russian-owned...
15 Feb, 2022 Jury Agrees with Judge Rakoff in Palin Defamation Case By Nicole Bergstrom Just one day after the judge in Sarah's Palin's case against The New York Times announced that no reasonable jury could return a verdict...
15 Feb, 2022 Judge Rakoff Announces Intention to Dismiss Sarah Palin's Defamation Case Against New York Times Despite Ongoing Jury Deliberation By Nicole Bergstrom In a very surprising move, Judge Jed S. Rakoff indicated that he would dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation case against The New York Times...
02 Feb, 2022 Case Update: Jury Awards Cardi B Millions in Defamation Case Against YouTube Blogger By Elizabeth Tuttle Newman With so many high-profile defamation litigations pending across the nation, a recent jury verdict for Cardi B at the conclusion of trial...
22 Dec, 2021 Fox News Can't Dismiss Dominion's $1.6B Defamation Suit By Nicole Bergstrom A recent decision out of the Delaware Superior Court explores the line between breaking news and defamation. Dominion Voting Systems was...
19 Nov, 2021 Alex Jones' Failure to Produce Documents Leads to Defaults in Sandy Hook Suits By Nicole Bergstrom On Monday, a Connecticut court found Alex Jones liable for defamation in claims brought by the families of eight people killed in the...
24 Aug, 2021 No Slander, No Case: Court Dismisses Avenatti’s Defamation Claims Against Fox News By Elizabeth Tuttle Newman In the US District Court for the District of Delaware earlier this month, Judge Bibas dismissed Michael Avenatti’s defamation claims...
30 Jul, 2021 She Likes It Like That: Cardi B Defeats Blogger’s Defamation Counterclaims By Elizabeth Tuttle Newman A federal judge in the Northern District of Georgia has dismissed counterclaims by blogger Latasha Kebe against rapper Cardi B (a/k/a...
21 Jul, 2021 That's Nice: (Former) Senator Roy Moore's Defamation Claim Against Sacha Baron Cohen is Dismissed By Edward H. Rosenthal Last week, I wrote about a new lawsuit filed by Sacha Baron Cohen in federal court in Massachusetts arising from the use of an image of...
10 Jul, 2021 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks Up About New York Times v. Sullivan By Nicole Bergstrom For the second time in two years, Clarence Thomas voiced his displeasure with the seminal defamation case, New York Times Co. v....
11 Nov, 2020 Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law By Jeremy Goldman Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law Media companies and publishers may finally...
10 Nov, 2020 High Scores and High Stakes: How a Defamation Suit Emerged from Donkey Kong By Jennifer Batista In April 2018, Twin Galaxies, an organization whose video game leaderboard records have been historically recognized as official records...