It also remains to be seen how the court will consider Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, assuming Reid’s lawyers make the argument that it shields her. The text, which was written a full decade before Twitter was created, states “No provider or...
On June 30 and July 3, in blog entries that have since been removed, Ms Wendy Cheng made in her Xiaxue blog some unfavourable remarks about Ms Dawn Yang. On July 15, Ms Yang’s lawyers sent a letter to Ms Cheng demanding an apology. The rule of thumb in defamation suits is that on...
and says she saw you in the general area of the laptop just before it disappeared. With no real facts to support the claim, the company calls you in and fires you for stealing the laptop.
In the following chapters I present the results of the media survey, the court file search and the survey of defamation lawyers, both in narrative and graph or tabular form. My tentative initial finding, that New Zealand's defamation laws do not have an excessive chilling effect on our media...
Lawyers get this wrong all the time, assuming erroneously that any statement that, say, imputes to the plaintiff an unfitness to perform the duties of a job or a lack of integrity in the performance of those duties, automatically qualifies for a multi-million-dollar defamation-per-se case....
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Grossberg, in particular, has emerged as a figure whose importance in Dominion's case appears to be growing. She is a former employee of CBS News. Grossberg filed a separate lawsuit against Fox News, Scott and its lawyers in Delaware state court alleging she was misleadingly coached and manip...
The jury on Monday found Latasha Kebe, known online as Tasha K, and a company she owns liable for defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress against the rapper, whose given name is Belcalis Almanzar. Kebe’s lawyers said in an email Tuesday that they disa...
Facebook itself was not part of the court case. The company spokesperson said they looked forward to "greater clarity and certainty in this area." The spokesperson further added that it was not their place to provide legal guidance to CNN, even though they have provided them with the latest...