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 ...

Ms. Jones is a professor of law at the University of Utah. In the days since a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to the libel plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, the question ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 15—A federal judge on Tuesday paused proceedings in a defamation lawsuit Maine lobstering groups brought against a California ...

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 ...

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 ...

The election is long over, but the bitter political battle between Fulton Superior Court Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane and attorney Mark V. Spix continued Monday as lawyers rehashed the controversy ...

“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 ...