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The origins of the United States' defamation laws pre-date the American Revolution; one influential case in 1734 involved John Peter Zenger and established precedent that "The Truth" is an absolute defense against charges of libel.
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
Trump denied the allegations, prompting Carroll to sue him for defamation in November 2019 (a.k.a. Carroll I). In November 2022, Carroll filed her second suit against Trump ( a.k.a. Carroll II ), renewing her claim of defamation and adding a claim of battery under the Adult Survivors Act , a New York law allowing sexual-assault victims to file ...
An American woman is suing the Tate brothers, influencers Andrew and Tristan, ... After the brothers sued Jane Doe for alleged libel and slander in 2023, her lawyers filed a countersuit in Florida ...
In a 5-2 decision Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court said victims of defamation should get more time to pursue lawsuits.
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restrict the ability of a public official to sue for defamation.
Whoopi Goldberg was publicly accused of defamation on Friday, two days after “The View” co-host suggested a bakery didn’t want to make her birthday desserts due to her left-leaning political ...
Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network (colloquially Dominion v.Fox) was a U.S. defamation lawsuit filed in March 2021 by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Channel and its corporate parent Fox Corporation.