Only San Diego Charger Shawne Merriman knows why he chose to sue Tila Tequila. If his purpose was to deflect negative publicity from Tequila's charges of violence and drug use, his filing led to further reporting of Tequila's charges.
Judy Platt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
Your book's been published in the United States for an American audience. Someone who's mentioned in the book doesn't like what you've written and sues you for libel, but he doesn't sue you here, where the book has been published.
AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
MOSCOW (AP)- A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin's grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent...
Guardian | Chris Tryhorn | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media
The Sun has agreed to pay Lily Allen £10,000 in damages over an article that wrongly alleged she called Victoria Beckham a "monster" and The X Factor...
Eugene Volokh | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
People should be free to leave their lovers, and even "flaunt[]" their new relationships, without a government agency deciding whether such behavior was "unreasonabl[e]".
The Independent | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
The actress Kate Beckinsale accepted 20,000 libel damages from Express Newspapers yesterday over a claim that she had been passed over for her dream r...
Guardian | Staff and Agencies | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Gordon Brown's brother today won libel damages in the high court from Scotland on Sunday over an "entirely false" story that he had pocketed improper ...
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 06.05.2009 | Home
Without the Anti-Libel Tourism Act, every creative enterprise produced in California is at risk of financial destruction at the hands of foreign predators.
Courthouse News Service | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
BROOKLYN (CN) - Joel Speyer, a CPA, says the New York Post cost him his job and defamed him in an Oct. 20, 2008 article accusing him of election fraud...
Neil G. Giuliano | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media
Rather than serving as platforms for lies and inaccuracies, media outlets should be calling out anti-gay activists when they resort to defamation, lies, and rhetoric that promote homophobia.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media
Last April, Gov. David A. Paterson signed "The Libel Terrorism Protection Act," dubbed by the media as "Rachel's Law," a groundbreaking, bi-partisan effort to protect authors and publishers in New York.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business
The American Small Business League (ASBL) has uncovered an extensive campaign by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to impugn the organization's ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal | A.D. HOPKINS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
John L. Smith, the Review-Journal's most widely read columnist, has filed for bankruptcy after a two-year legal battle with Sheldon Adelson, owner of ...
Kristen Spanier | Posted 12.20.2009 | Entertainment