The Judge Rotenberg Center, which has been condemned by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, is suing a small nonprofit for defamation after they published a survey critical of the school's practices.
The U.S. shouldn't import British defamation law, no matter how much Donald Trump would like to.
Justice Thomas reiterates his desire to revisit the contours of defamation law and New York Times v. Sullivan.
Heard won $2 million on one of her counterclaims.
A federal district court judge dismissed Lindell's counterclaims against Dominion and Smartmatic, and Lindell may still be on the hook for defamation.
A town attorney threatened a local activist with a frivolous lawsuit so she would stop criticizing him. She complied, and he sued her anyway.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is taking advantage of the state's lax laws that make it easier to file frivolous lawsuits intended to quell speech.
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The decision allows Smartmatic to proceed with its defamation lawsuit against Fox, two anchors, and Rudy Giuliani.
Professor Lipton's article, "Capital Discrimination" is back up on SSRN, despite the efforts of Philip Shawe's attorneys.
A paper by Professor Ann Lipton has been deplatformed because Philip R. Shawe does not like how it portrays his actions in a business dispute, and now a law review may refuse to publish the piece.
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A federal judge concluded that Powell and eight other pro-Trump lawyers who challenged Michigan's election results made frivolous arguments and treated evidence recklessly.
The former GOP House candidate is suing The Daily Wire's Candace Owens for $20 million.
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell can still beat Dominion Voting Systems in court by showing that their accusations were true.
Another bad day for the Kraken team of lawyers.
A week after granting summary judgment for another defendant (CEI), the judge rejects all but one of the proffered experts.
Another significant loss for the controversial climate scientist, though his cases against two remaining defendants will continue.
Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell says the sheer volume of the affidavits she collected shows she exercised due diligence.
Glenn Reynolds suggests it's how that landmark decision was applied and expanded that has created the real problem.
The suspension is based on "demonstrably false and misleading statements" that Giuliani made as Donald Trump's lawyer.
The former Trump campaign lawyer plans to defeat defamation lawsuits by showing "what actually happened."
"Stanford Law School is strongly committed to free speech," says Dean Jenny S. Martinez, who wants to "ensure that something like this does not happen again."
The university investigated a law school student for mocking the Federalist Society, putting his diploma on hold until yesterday.
The former Trump campaign lawyer insists her allegations about systematic voting fraud were not "statements of fact."
The election systems company is taking its fight to the conspiratorial My Pillow CEO.
Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro persistently promoted the wild claims of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
The company says Donald Trump's leading lawyer perpetrated "a viral disinformation campaign" based on "demonstrably false" charges.
The crackdown on crackpot Kraken claims continues.
Threats of defamation suits have prompted corrective statements on Fox and Newsmax, but My Pillow CEO wants to fight.
American Thinker says its claims about Dominion Voting Systems were "completely false."
Dominion Voting Systems, the focus of the former Trump campaign lawyer's conspiracy theory, is seeking $1.3 billion from her for defamation.
Trump attorney Kurt Hilbert claimed he had reached settlement agreements with state officials, which was news to them.
Eric Coomer says the claim that he bragged about fixing the election during an "antifa conference call" provoked a torrent of abuse and death threats.
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is filing a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton
The lawsuit might be good politics, but it's bad for free speech.
By complaining to Yale about Bandy Lee's violation of the Goldwater Rule, Dershowitz lets her portray herself as a brave dissident.
Justice Alito dissents from the denial of certiorari in National Review v. Mann
"Your statement is defamatory, and we demand that you retract it immediately," Gabbard's lawyer wrote in a letter.
The former vice presidential candidate's revived defamation suit against The New York Times highlights the hazards of us-versus-them thinking.
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