Libel Lawsuit Over Investigation of Alleged Slur at Polo Match Dismissed
The U.S. Polo Association investigation exonerated the plaintiff, but the plaintiff still sued the USPA for libel.
The U.S. Polo Association investigation exonerated the plaintiff, but the plaintiff still sued the USPA for libel.
A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.
of South Africa and the European Court of Human Rights."
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held to be vague and therefore unenforceable.
Comparing Elon Musk and Barack Obama underscores why entrepreneurs, not politicians, are the more effective agents of social change.
So a federal judge held yesterday.
Not even under an anti-SLAPP statute—rather, under a statute allowing sanctions for "frivolous conduct in filing civil claims."
"Netflix alleges that Tyler County’s District Attorney, Lucas Babin, is 'abusing his office' through a 'singular and bad-faith effort' to maliciously prosecute Netflix in violation of the United States Constitution and in retaliation against Netflix for exercising its First Amendment rights."
So Georgia Administrative Law Judge Charles R. Beaudrot ruled yesterday.
Former Congressman Alan Grayson, now running for the Senate in Florida, is producing some interesting caselaw.
"No matter how deplorable the plaintiff finds the defendant's remarks, the First Amendment precludes civil liability for the remarks in order to protect the right to free and robust debate on matters of public concern, which the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus plainly is."
A state law bans it -- but that law is very likely unconstitutional (though a different version of such a ban would have been constitutional).
The libertarianish Colorado Democrat is devolving decision-making to parents and trying to lower the income tax to zero.
cutting back on what seemed like a categorical prohibition on anti-libel injunctions from a 1978 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case.
Very likely no, if the clerk is domiciled in D.C. or Maryland (and pretty likely no if in Virginia), if the stated factual background is accurate.
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It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.
A district court just allowed a First Amendment challenge to this policy to go forward.
The alarm aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board is understandable given the administration’s broader assault on messages it considers dangerous.
Anthony Novak's arrest and subsequent lawsuit set up a debate around overcriminalization and free speech.
This “unprecedented crisis for democracy” is neither unprecedented nor a crisis for democracy.
A “30-by-50-foot flag saying, ‘TRUMP 2020 Keep America Great’” was therefore wrongly forbidden by the City of Buffalo (Minnesota).
"Government restrictions came in, which literally shut us down," says Paul Smith, who co-owns Red Stag Tattoo in Austin, Texas.
So the Supreme Court held this morning, though it made clear that a city could pick and choose which flags it flies, if it makes clear that the flags are its own speech.
The justices unanimously agree that the city was not endorsing the flags, and that therefore it couldn’t exclude religious organizations.
Alejandro Mayorkas fails to inspire much confidence in the new group run by Nina Jankowicz.
Court redacts the name from the court-hosted official record, but refuses to order private sites to remove it.
The co-founder of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" talks about the power of decentralization and the rise in subscription models for journalism.
The board's head says she is dedicated to "protecting free speech," but she has also expressed direct opposition to "free speech absolutists."