High court judge rules Nina Cresswell’s account of Billy Hay’s attack is true on the balance of probabilities ...

Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely ...

A 1964 Supreme Court decision affords the press strong protections against costly defamation lawsuits. That’s why a dangerous new movement is trying to overturn it. Trump’s litigiousness dates back to ...

In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan four years ago, the Supreme Court laid down tough constitutional limitations on libel recoveries by public officials. “A defamatory falsehood relating to his official ...

When the Supreme Court ruled in 1964 that news organizations need no longer fear ruinous libel judgments over small, inadvertent errors, it sparked an explosion of investigative reporting. A direct ...

57 years ago, the Supreme Court heard a case that changed how this country protects freedom of the press. Constitutional scholar RonNell Anderson Jones says that since Times v. Sullivan, a public ...

Criminal libel is usually associated with countries that lack First Amendment-style protections, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has decided to use the little-known — and some say ...

“Heed Their Rising Voices,” proclaimed the full-page ad that appeared in the Tuesday, March 29, 1960, edition of the New York Times. The ad requested donations to support the legal defense of Martin ...

Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch helped a New Zealand businessman vindicate his reputation in a libel lawsuit. Counsel for the plaintiff previously helped Dominion Voting Systems secure a $787 million ...