Tyra Banks is taking legal action against Netflix over her portrayal in the docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. According to a lawsuit filed on June 13, Banks…
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To lose one speech-suppressing SLAPP suit may be regarded as thoughtless. To lose two looks like you’re a censorial hack. Last month we wrote about how supposed “free speech warrior” Matt Taibbi (who spent years misrepresenting the work of people who study disinformation as inherently censorial, while getting pretty basic facts wrong) had lost his […]
The court schedule has been set for Nick Ut's defamation lawsuit in France against Netflix and the VII Foundation over claims made in The Stringer documentary.
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How familiar are you with business courts? They may be flying under your radar, but your lives are deeply entangled. Nearly two-thirds of Americans live in a state with a business court. And some workers or consumers in those states—whether they like it or not—could end up having important cases decided by a business court.
That could be a problem, because new research by the People’s Parity…
The Rebel Wilson legal war over her film The Deb has continued to play out in the courtroom again this week, reaching an explosive conclusion. The actor and director is ...
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Not this again. For many years now there have been a series of ongoing lawsuits between E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, involving a variety of issues, but mainly whether or not he sexually assaulted her back in the 1990s and, separately, whether he defamed her in claiming he’d never met her after she accused […]
Perhaps Matt Taibbi’s most famous bit of writing ever was his takedown of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stone (and then in a book that followed) that opened with the highly evocative metaphor: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into […]
The star says the gossip blogger — who already owes a $4M defamation judgment — violated a settlement banning her from trash talking Cardi.
Former judge Roy Moore made quite a name for himself while attempting to convert his sketchy judicial career into a presumably equally sketchy career as US senator. Prior to his run for office in the 2018 mid-term election, Moore had already been suspended from the Alabama bench for a long list of violations: A normal […]
To have one defamation case about public allegations of your drinking as FBI Director would be unfortunate. To have a second dismissed the very next day would be, well, perhaps a sign that something has gone wrong. Earlier this week we wrote about Kash Patel’s ridiculously weak defamation case against The Atlantic over its big, […]
Back in 2023, the composer Nomi Abadi sued veteran film scorer Danny Elfman for failing to pay several installments in a sexual harassment settlement. A few months later, a Jane Doe also accused Elfman of sexual misconduct. Elfman denied Abadi's allegations in a statement to _Rolling Stone_ , leading her to sue him again for defamation in 2024; that's ongoing after a Superior Court judge rejected…
A day after FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi. U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel’s lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC […]
There are defamation lawsuits designed to win, and then there are defamation lawsuits designed to generate headlines for your fans on social media, punish journalists, and maybe — if you’re lucky — force a settlement or intimidate future reporting. FBI Director Kash Patel’s brand new defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic is very obviously the second […]
The judge said that Kaczyński "bears moral responsibility for tragedies" that occurred as a result of the near-total abortion ban.
Back in January of last year, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a leather-bound birthday book that Ghislaine Maxwell had assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The book included letters from various associates, and one of them bore Donald Trump’s name. According to the article, it featured a hand-drawn outline of […]
A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch and others, ruling that the president’s claim fails to “adequately allege actual malice.” U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles will allow the president to file an amended complaint. He wrote, “The lawsuit raises many questions of fact and law about […]
The music giant says the rapper's lawsuit over Lamar's incendiary diss track shouldn't be revived by a federal appeals court.
The internet has been rightfully enjoying videos from the defamation trial against Afroman, a musician known for his humorous songs including “Because I got high.” The lawsuit involves songs he wrote about a 2022 raid police conducted on his house, which was based on flimsy evidence. The songs justifiably mock the officers involved. Mike Masnick […]
Indigenous support for Darryl Leroux has been surging since he was found to have defamed Dr. Michelle Coupal by accusing her of fraud.
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As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going about as well for the officers as their original botched raid on his home. Today we can report the inevitable conclusion: the jury sided entirely with Afroman, clearing him of all liability after just hours […]
Police officers raided the "Because I Got High" rapper's Ohio home, then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media — but a jury just sided with Afroman.
We’ve been following the saga of Afroman (real name Joseph Foreman) and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for a few years now, and I’m delighted to report that the defamation trial is currently underway and it is delivering everything you could possibly hope for, starting with this absolutely astounding suit that he’s wearing in court […]
Darryl Leroux made comments via social media and text, as well as in a public lecture, alleging Michelle Coupal had committed ‘fraud.’
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René Dierkes has vowed to take legal action against what he describes as a ‛witch hunt,’ claiming that the posts being investigated were actually written by a disgruntled former employee.
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today over its welfare scandal could be revived after several Mississippi Supreme Court justices questioned a lower court’s dismissal and suggested a jury should consider the case.
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Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s lawsuit against Mississippi Today will reach the Mississippi Supreme Court on Wednesday, as justices consider his allegations that the publication defamed him by suggesting he was involved in a massive welfare scandal.
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This article was updated at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday with comment from the plaintiff. Two of Alaska’s largest news organizations and two top reporters did not commit defamation when they described a former state employee’s statements about rape, a state judge ruled on Tuesday in Anchorage. Jeremy Cubas, a former aide to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, sued […]