But it turns out that, though each statement in the story was literally true, Mrs. Nichols was at the Nichols home together ...

Defamation is the act of publishing false and damaging statements about a person or business to a third party. Traditionally, defamatory statements have been separated into two categories: slander and ...

A “Friendsgiving” protest featuring “Gaza’s Spilled Blood” echoed a slander that has sparked violence against Jews for centuries, writes a scholar of antisemitism. Once again the medieval lie that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...