A federal jury in Manhattan has once again ruled that the New York Times is not responsible for defaming Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial. It is the second straight courtroom defeat for the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate. Palin, 61, had sued the newspaper and its then-editorial page editor, James Bennet, for an…
Two days after a helicopter collided with a passenger jet in Washington in January, killing 67 people, Jo Ellis woke up to a flurry of text messages. Ms. Ellis, a 35-year-old helicopter pilot in the Virginia Army National Guard, learned from friends that her name and photos were all over social media. Users were falsely…
When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in oil pipeline protests, a quarter-billion dollars of the damages were awarded not for the actual demonstrations, but for defaming the pipeline’s owner. The costly verdict has raised alarm among activist organizations as well as some First Amendment experts,…
The World Anti-Doping Agency has dropped a defamation lawsuit against its American counterpart, a major retreat for the agency after nearly a year of escalating conflict over its handling of positive tests for a banned drug by 23 elite Chinese swimmers. The decision by the agency — known by its acronym, WADA — to drop…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court dismissed Tuesday a defamation complaint filed by BJP functionary Rajeev Chandrashekhar against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, saying if every speech was viewed as defamation then “freedom of speech and expression would be reduced to nought”.The court of additional chief judicial magistrate Paras Dalal noted there is “no prima facie evidence”…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea quashing to case filed against him in Jharkhand. The apex court stayed proceedings against Rahul for allegedly making a defamatory remark on Union minister Amit Shah during 2019 Lok Sabha polls.A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta sought…
A jury in Florida on Friday ordered CNN to pay $5 million for defaming a private security contractor in a five-minute segment that ran on the network in November 2021. CNN settled the lawsuit hours later for an undisclosed sum, before the jury had an opportunity to award additional punitive damages in the case. Those…
NEW DELHI: A special MP MLA court in Pune on Friday granted bail to Congress leader and leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, in connection with a defamation case on a surety bond of Rs 25,000. The Congress leader appeared before the court through video conferencing.The complaint was filed against the Raebareli…
PANAJI: The Aam Aadmi Party in Goa on Wednesday alleged that the defamation suit filed against party leader Sanjay Singh by Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant‘s wife was a ploy to keep him away from the Delhi assembly election campaign. Delhi assembly elections are likely to be held by the end of January or early…
ABC News has agreed to give USD 15 million to US President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving the civil case brought against Trump by writer E Jean Carroll, a court document filed on Saturday showed. The lawsuit, filed on March 19 in…