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Trump, who has refused to concede his election defeat and continues to make baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, has routinely lost court cases that he and his supporters have filed around the country to try to overturn the election results. Trump's campaign did not immediat...
In most cases, it won’t be actionable to call for the resignation of apublic officialor to question that person’s ethics or professionalism. The First Amendment is intended to protect robust debate over the performance of government officials, and statements like these are generally considered ...
What isn’t being highlighted, though, is that McDuck’s and Yelp have tangled before. Several years ago, McDuck won $2,700 from Yelp. The firm had initiated a legal action against the online review platform because language in Yelp’s vendor contract; McDuck felt Yelp extorted businesses ...
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COMMERCIAL speechLIBEL & slanderEric Jan Hansum* I. Introduction Just when talk-show audiences thought they had seen and...Hansum, Eric JanReview of Litigation
Moreover, that section introduces a twotiered analysis that examines first the plaintiff and second the context in order to help courts deal with food disparagement laws in a way that is consistent with current concepts of defamation and commercial speech cases. The two-tiered analysis attempts to...