"He's more likely to be a libel defendant than a libel plaintiff."
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Twitter libel lawsuits are notoriously difficult to win Twitter libel lawsuits are notoriously difficult to win.
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If the libel had been committed way back in 2012, a change in punctuation couldn't have republished that libel.
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Once again, Trump's attempt to escape the burdens of libel law and the First Amendment by pleading a non-libel claim failed.
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And then we get the libel letter — Roy Cohn sent a libel letter to the Voice before the first piece was published.
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To understand why social media should play a role in libel cases, specifically with public figures, you first need to understand libel laws.
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At least one libel case against Steele is pending London, England, where libel laws are stricter and make fewer allowances for public interest.
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There have been 32 claims of libel, slander, defamation, wrongful termination and libel or slander on a U5, up from 17 last year.
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During the campaign, Trump said he would like to "open up" libel laws but hasn't followed through, and libel law generally is a state matter.
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American libel law, the theory goes, protects writers and publishers better than the laws of countries like Britain, where it's easier to win a libel judgment.
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Justice Thomas's statement came in the wake of complaints from President Trump that libel laws make it too hard for public officials to win libel suits.
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Partly because they were also ... imagine, a cyber libel case, and they filed the cyber libel case not just against the editorial, but also against the board.
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Libel suits — Putin notably recriminalized libel, after it had been decriminalized in 2011 under Dmitry Medvedev — drummed-up prosecutions, and vise-like media regulation accomplish the same ends.
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When the First Amendment was ratified, he wrote, many states made it quite easy to sue for libel in civil actions and to prosecute libel as a crime.
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Ressa argued the statute of limitations on libel, which should also apply to cyber libel, had already expired so the NBI had no basis to investigate and charge her.
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A recent libel ruling said there was a "ceiling" for awards, with the top end reserved for the most serious libel, such as accusations of genocide, terrorism, and murder.
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Its assistant general counsel, David McCraw, eviscerated Kasowitz's libel claim in a letter on Thursday: The essence of a libel claim, of course, is the protection of one's reputation.
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They have openly partnered with groups like Miftah, which has spread centuries-old blood libel against the Jewish people — blood libel that has for generations led to extreme violence.
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Technically speaking, slander only happens when someone says something out loud, whereas libel relates to what they publish in print so maybe he should have called this THE LIBEL LIES.
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But not every criminal libel prosecution concerns official conduct, and people who have studied the matter say criminal libel prosecutions may have a role to play in vindicating damaged reputations.
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It's mean, hateful, spiteful — but it's probably not libel.
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"The threat of being sued for libel is a constant one for us fearless journalists," Ressa said in a written reply to the libel complaint filed with National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
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In dismissing the libel suit, Judge Jed Rakoff said the Palin attorneys had not shown the Times acted with "actual malice," the standard needed for public figures to win a libel suit.
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Justice Thomas's understanding of libel law, should it prevail, would put us in league with Singapore and other countries where public officials use libel law to intimidate the press and curtail public discourse.
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Landry's says that the ALDF's allegations constitute slander and libel.
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Sullivan, that established modern standards around libel of public officials.
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She sided with the defendant in an important libel case.
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Fan's studio responded by threatening to sue Cui for libel.
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And they cover slander, libel, wrongful eviction or false arrest.
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It's called "libel tourism" and it happens all the time.
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Stick to First Amendment and stay with current libel standards.
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This Steve Bannon email turned up in a libel suit.
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"Donald J. Trump is a libel bully," the report said.
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But on Wednesday night, Cohen dropped the libel suit entirely.
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Sullivan, which is the touchstone of modern American libel law.
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Manafort vigorously denied the report, accusing The Guardian of libel.
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Singapore, with its strict libel laws, is always a concern.
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"Donald J. Trump is a libel bully," the report concluded.
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Indeed, the spreadsheet can't be published because of libel law.
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The journalist subsequently filed a libel suit against the magazine.
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They arrested Mr. Frese, saying he had committed criminal libel.
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Sullivan, set limits on what those libel laws can entail.
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Trump sued the publisher of The Daily Mail for libel.
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"That is a blood libel," Koch said on Sunday afternoon.
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"We're going to open up those libel laws," he said.
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"That's just more mean than it is libel," he said.
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How libel laws can be changed The truth is, and I put this at the bottom of this article so you would read this in its entirety, Trump cannot directly change the libel laws.
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TRUMP: Very powerful man … MARK THOMPSON: Thank you, and it's a really short one, but after all the talk about libel and libel laws, are you committed to the First Amendment to the Constitution?
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"Cyberlibel" is a specifically computer-related variant of the Philippines' general libel law — one that's reportedly produced a sharp uptick in libel complaints, including one highly publicized case against Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa.
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Sullivan, in which the justices ruled unanimously the newspaper's favor and established the "actual malice" standard for libel law, would almost certainly forestall his efforts to water down libel laws if he had the opportunity.
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I think we all are subject to libel and slander laws.
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Tough libel laws help keep prying journalists and NGOs at bay.
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He also agreed he will not disparage, slander or libel Byrd.
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The man he sued for libel recently died of unknown causes.
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But libel and slander cause demonstrable harm to lives and reputations.
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Therefore, what could Trump do to "open up" the libel laws?
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Caruana Galizia herself had been sued for libel over blog entries.
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Digital technology makes it easy to disseminate libel widely and anonymously.
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Days later, ChemRisk filed papers seeking to drop its libel claims.
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The outing comes after Depp sued a British tabloid for libel.
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Rather than investigating the crime, the local sheriff sued for libel.
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Trump wants to use the libel laws to silence the press.
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He has a similar history when it comes to libel cases.
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"Donald Trump has a horrible record on libel cases," Seager said.
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In Australia, in the area of libel law, it's the opposite.
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Libel damages in the U.K. are capped at around £300,000 ($395,000).
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I asked Professor Volokh whether criminal libel laws were good policy.
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Sullivan case, which raised the bar for libel suits against publications.
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Harper sued for wrongful dismissal, and NBC countersued her for libel.
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Mr. Watkins filed the libel complaint against Mr. Brennan in October.
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" He added, "Don't know why Washington politicians don't change libel laws?
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Meir to file a $3 million libel lawsuit against the publication.
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And freedom of press does not allow you to publish libel.
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But Peter Thiel does not think that libel laws need changing.
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In order to support her journalism while she fights this libel case, and to increase resources for her investigation, Cadwalladr has now launched a GoFundMe campaign as she faces the possibility of a million-pound libel bill.
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That was when the undertaker, one Ebenezer Holmes, sued The Times for libel, joining the long parade of unhappy people who have lodged libel complaints against The Times over the course of the paper's 33-year history.
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Insulted foreign leaders can still pursue their own libel and defamation cases.
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Dr. Paul's suing for libel and defamation ...and there's side beef too.
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Then, finally, he reveals that he sued Jay for libel and won.
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And the entire episode potentially opens up President Trump to libel charges.
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Repressive colonial-era laws on sedition and libel also play a part.
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In October he won a fierce libel suit against another media outlet.
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It can even cover you for such things as libel and slander.
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U.S. courts have routinely deemed Trump a public figure in libel lawsuits.
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Keng filed the cyber libel complaint against Ressa and Santos in 2017.
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Think of it this way — are you well-versed in libel laws?
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Cohen had sued BuzzFeed for libel but dropped that suit last month.
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The question is whether Mr. Trump would benefit from changing libel laws.
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But demanding a retraction or apology is pretty standard in libel cases.
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Mühe's ex-wife sued him for libel and won, despite the documentation.
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It is not in a president's direct power to tighten libel laws.
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But successfully defending CBS's "60 Minutes" in a libel suit by Gen.
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Sullivan, the 1964 Supreme Court opinion that revolutionized the law of libel.
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In saying that, she protected those women and certainly didn't libel him.
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Libel, incitement of violence and child pornography are all forms of speech.
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"The libel laws are very weak in this country," he told reporters.
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Despite Trump's threats, there are no federal libel laws on the books.
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He is on Fox News threatening to sue co-panelists for libel.
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Sullivan, the landmark case establishing that actual malice standard for libel cases.
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She now faces "cyber libel" charges over an article published in 2012.
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Blood libel does not make vehicle stops safer for African-American men.
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"It's akin to libel and cursing," the company wrote on Sina Weibo.
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Sullivan, which made it difficult for public officials to win libel suits.
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Mistakes would open him up to criticism and perhaps even libel suits.
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The three individuals collected hundreds of thousands in libel damage from British newspapers.
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Remember: Jay lost everything when George Hodel filed a libel case against him.
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And Trump even name-checked the Times when suggesting his libel laws idea.
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Jacobus sued Trump for libel, saying she'd never sought a job with him.
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Trump had often complained about U.S. libel laws on the 2016 campaign trail.
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Moreover, Thailand's lèse-majesté law is an extension of the country's libel laws.
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He hasn't attempted to change libel laws, or have NBC's broadcast license revoked.
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" In the same tweet, the President asked the rhetorical question: "Change libel laws?
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Sullivan, which establishes a high bar for public figures to win libel suits.
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The email surfaced in a libel suit brought by Sherrod against Breitbart News.
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After losing the election, Goldwater sued the magazine's editor for libel — and won.
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" Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the US, accused Bernie of "blood libel.
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The point is, as "blood libel" spread, they became more and more vulnerable.
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Libel is when something is written that is false and damages someone's reputation.
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Changing the libel laws, though, would create volatility with our first amendment rights.
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Scoop: Melania Trump has settled her libel suit against blogger Webster Griffin Tarpley.
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The New York Times case stemmed from a libel lawsuit the Montgomery, Ala.
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WASHINGTON, DC — In 83, a Holocaust denier sued a Holocaust scholar for libel.
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But suing for libel in a court of law is a different matter.
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Sullivan ruling that made it harder for public officials to win libel lawsuits.
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Hall denies the allegations and has filed a libel suit against the singer.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," Mr. Kasowitz wrote.
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The Herald prompted several libel suits, including one that landed Barnum in jail.
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Ressa was freed on bail Thursday after her arrest in a libel case.
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The bill also proposes removing the ban on dueling, and publishing blasphemous libel.
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"People say that Sydney is the libel capital of the world," he added.
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"I categorically deny this vicious libel upon me," Azmin said in a statement.
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Whelan rightfully apologized for this, and was rightfully attacked for his potential libel.
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Two recent decisions in libel suits against Mr. Trump have helped clarify matters.
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While running those newspapers, she weathered repeated libel suits from those she criticized.
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Libel of public figures like Trump is notoriously difficult to prove in court.
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Zuckerberg twice referenced the civil-rights-era libel case New York Times v.
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The characterization of Brimelow that triggered the libel lawsuit appeared in a Jan.
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In response, Trump sued O'Brien for libel and sought $5 billion in damages.
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Thiel famously bankrolled a libel lawsuit that effectively bankrupted the gossip website Gawker.
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Herrera had sought libel damages after Caruana Galizia attacked her in her blog.
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Individuals defraud each other, they libel each other, they commit many horrendous crimes.
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A judge ruled against Miller's libel suit but the decision is under appeal.
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And because Nunes is a public figure, the standard for libel is higher.
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In a column Wednesday, he highlighted the organization's "slander and libel" against American citizens.
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Gilles is suing for libel, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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In the suit, SmileDirect accuses the practice of defamation, unfair competition, and trade libel.
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Sinead O'Connor isn't fazed by Arsenio Hall's libel lawsuit against her in the least.
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Caixin and Ms Hu deny all allegations and are suing Mr Guo for libel.
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When journalists ridiculed him in the campaign he threatened to open up libel laws.
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The last time he sued a news organization for libel was apparently in 1984.
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Trump doesn't need her husband to "open up the libel laws" to get there.
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Additionally, the Supreme Court has affirmed First Amendment protections for journalists against libel allegations.
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Misreporting can ruin careers and also lead to costly and time-consuming libel cases.
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He mentioned that you and the New Republic were sued for libel over that
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Not because of his innocence or lack of under the law of seditious libel.
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He later brought court libel cases and complaints against the Garda, newspapers and others.
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Additionally, the Supreme Court has placed constitutional limits on how states can define libel.
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It covers liability for injuries, libel, vandalism, slander, invasion of privacy, and other scenarios.
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It's no surprise, then, that Trump is the foremost opponent of America's libel laws.
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It's not within the president's direct powers to change the rules for libel suits.
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It can raise the risk of legal consequences such as libel or slander suits.
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What to expect: Chances of Trump blowing up libel or FOIA laws are slim.
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He then went on to suggest that the landmark libel precedent should be overturned.
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They might have filed a civil suit for libel, seeking money from Mr. Frese.
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"The fundamental defect of criminal libel statutes is that they're unconstitutionally vague," he said.
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PAUL: Libel laws differ around the world, and we are now a global newspaper.
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Can you elaborate on why it strikes the company as a weak libel case?
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The far better option would be to prohibit libel or slander on their platforms.
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For one thing, libel litigation has become relatively rare, at least for The Times.
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In 2000 I spent 10 weeks in a British court on trial for libel.
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This time she's being held on cyber libel charges under the Cybercrime Prevention Act.
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However, the cyber libel law only came into effect in the Philippines in 2014.
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Before the #MeToo movement, libel lawsuits from people accused of lying were in decline.
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But hardly anyone jousts with The Times when it comes to formally asserting libel.
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The court's decision required people claiming libel to prove "actual malice," not simply untruths.
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Trump has a well-earned reputation for threatening and at times pursing libel charges.
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She sued Mr. Cosby for libel after his lawyer said she had been dishonest.
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"New York Times Revives 'Blood Libel' Against Sarah Palin," Breitbart's Joel Pollak lashed out.
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President Trump continued his attack against the "failing" New York Times this morning, firing off another tweet: Coincidentally, the Times has pertinent experience with libel law — it likely knows that the only possible libel law at play here is the United States Constitution.
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Georgia is among 13 states that have adopted food libel laws, which generally have a lower legal burden of proof compared with traditional libel laws and make it easier for food companies to sue people who make disparaging remarks about their products.
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One of the reasons we don't see as many foreign libel suits is that the Congress in 2010 passed a law that makes it almost impossible for people who win libel judgments abroad to bring them to the United States and enforce them.
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Barbara Bush did the same in her 1994 memoir—until Agee sued her for libel.
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Yes, it really looks like Trump's tweet was expertly crafted to avoid those libel laws.
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And they delivered the other part with the libel threat — maybe the women were lying.
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He allegedly told another that he'd sue them and their employer for libel and slander.
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He has already mused about legislation making it easier to sue journalism organizations for libel.
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Under American law, libel can occur in any written medium, no matter the character count.
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Society has created devices, such as libel, and ownership laws, to rein in old media.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," Mr. Kasowitz wrote to NYT.
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He wants to loosen libel laws, for instance, to make it easier to sue journalists.
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"Personally, I think it's irresponsible for anyone to publish names, verging on libel," he said.
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The libel case was moved from a New York court to Los Angeles last week.
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The armed forces have accused the paper of libel and defamation, charges the publication denied.
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He also represented Melania Trump, winning a libel action for her against the Daily Mail.
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The libel suit was filed by the baseball player in U.S. District Court in Washington.
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Avenatti is representing adult-film star Daniels in her libel lawsuit against Trump and Cohen.
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"Name calling is safeguarded from a libel suit because it's not factual assertion," Calvert added.
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All have denied the charges, and Howard and Zimmerman have sued Al Jazeera for libel.
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Aleksej Gubarev, the Russian Internet entrepreneur, sued Steele and Orbis, and also BuzzFeed, for libel.
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"We're going to open up those libel laws," he told supporters on the campaign trail.
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In March 2018, Hopkins lost a libel lawsuit filed against her by writer Jack Monroe.
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Libel is a matter of state law limited by the principles of the First Amendment.
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Never mind that as president, he would have no power to alter state libel laws.
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Thompson had better brush up on the law as it relates to slander and libel.
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Firstly, it makes the person who wrote the post potentially susceptible to a libel claim.
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Mike: Saying I like U2 in a public newsletter is dangerously close to libel, sir.
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He regularly threatens to sue adversaries and rewrite libel laws to punish news media organizations.
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About half of states have laws making libel a crime, and prosecutions are not uncommon.
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It is not changing anytime soon — neither the First Amendment nor the rules of libel.
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He has renewed his calls to take a "strong look" at the country's libel laws.
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He makes wild, false claims that may well cross the line into libel and slander.
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As president, Trump has threatened to take a closer look at the nation's libel laws.
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Publishers have manuscripts reviewed by their legal departments to guard against libel and copyright infringement.
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He first indicated his displeasure with current provisions of libel actions during his presidential campaign.
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Mr. Garvey sued for libel, and Mr. Kasten eventually conceded that the ad was inaccurate.
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Sullivan, a 1964 opinion holding that public officials have a higher burden to prove libel.
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In his judicial opinions, though, Judge Kavanaugh expressed support for broad protections from libel suits.
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Sullivan, holding that public figures have a higher burden to prove libel, was wrongly decided.
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" Today, Roth said, "libel and slander are state court causes of action, not federal laws.
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The verdict could set a precedent where free speech online, libel and slander are concerned.
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Claims of libel, however, have to be made within three months of the offending publication.
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He's threatened lawsuits and changes to libel laws, but he hasn't taken any specific action.
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The publisher might check the book for libel, but it generally doesn't check for plagiarism.
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During his campaign, he suggested weakening libel laws to more easily bring lawsuits against news organizations.
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On the campaign trail, Trump threatened to open up libel laws to intimidate the news media.
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Like slander, libel refers to making a false statement that is harmful to a person's reputation.
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Singer notes that criminal libel was used in Britain "for centuries" before its abolition in 2010.
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The director, who has denied the previous allegations, is suing one of the accusers for libel.
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Trump has vowed to "open up our libel laws," if he wins the presidency on Nov.
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" He said last year that he would take a "strong look at our country's libel laws.
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Messina was charged with libel, a crime that can carry a prison sentence of six years.
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The White House defended Mr. Miller on Thursday by equating the law center's reporting to libel.
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Rose: When I first started looking at "blood libel," I thought that might be the case.
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Daniels is suing both Trump and Cohen for libel after denying her claims of an affair.
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Aaron truthers Ranieri's weepy statement and Will once again cowers in fear of a libel suit.
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But the Commission rarely enforces the Act on accounts of libel that don't affect consumer behavior.
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Sullivan that protects the First Amendment by making it very difficult to win a libel suit.
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Newspapers, for their part, have often sat on reports of abuse rather than risk libel claims.
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Professor Volokh, an authority on the First Amendment, said narrowly written criminal libel laws were constitutional.
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But for a libel lawyer, a little sympathy for the villain is almost an occupational requirement.
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The article raised a flap of angry denials, and Ms. Iseman sued the newspaper for libel.
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Other writings endorse the blood libel—the legend that Jews kill Christian children for ritual purposes.
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The libel case made its way to Virginia's Supreme Court, where it was finally thrown out.
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He'll go after his critics in the press, with or without the benefit of libel law.
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Trump has now doubled down on his legal strategy by again raising concerns about libel laws.
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" At last week's cabinet meeting, Trump said current libel laws are a "sham" and a "disgrace.
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The filing also came one day after Briles had dropped his libel suit against the university.
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The cyber-libel law, however, was enacted in the Philippines after the original article was published.
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To knowingly and recklessly accuse someone of a crime falsely and publish the accusation is libel.
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That is a high bar, and public figures rarely file libel suits and seldom win them.
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A federal judge ruled against Miller's libel suit last August, but that decision is on appeal.
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Under Virginia law, a libel plaintiff has one year from the publication to bring a suit.
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Mr. Soros supports N.G.O.s that libel Israel by falsely accusing it of genocide and war crimes.
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For two years they've been spreading the libel that there are no honest brokers in Washington.
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Journalists strive to seek truth and accuracy in writing, and seek to avoid slander and libel.
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He wants to "open up the libel laws" against reporters who write unkind things about him.
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In a famous libel action in 2000, which became the subject of the dramadoc Denial, the extreme right-wing provocateur David Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt, an American historian, and her publisher, Penguin Books, for libel when she had described him, correctly enough, as a Holocaust denier.
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Ms. Constand sued The National Enquirer for libel in 2006, and won a financial settlement from it.
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Sullivan in 1964, he said, to say the First Amendment requires libel plaintiffs to meet heightened standards.
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Just a few weeks before Election Day 2016, Trump was threatening to sue his accusers for libel.
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Trump filed his libel lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York.
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As an example, a former aide cited Trump's repeat this week of his "change libel laws?" crusade.
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On Tuesday Mr Trump threatened, as he had on the campaign trail, to tighten America's libel laws.
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Even America, which provides the world's most robust legal speech protections allows lawsuits for libel and slander.
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I categorically deny all of these allegations and am today filing a complaint against X for libel.
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And by litigation I don't mean copyright claims, I more mean subjects bringing defamation or libel lawsuits.
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" According to TMZ, Ciara dropped the libel claim in October, but is still suing for "false light.
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"There can also be bar penalties for abuse of process, and civil ones for libel," he said.
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There was a little too much talk about the Chamber of Horrors and libel and actionable wrong.
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He threatens to ruin my reputation, career and constantly makes libel (sic) comments about my mental health.
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The law is, therefore, justified for the institution in a similar way libel law is for commoners.
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The first act takes place at the Cadogan Hotel where Oscar hides after his libel action collapses.
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Notably, the majority of these celebs hired Singer to fight for them in libel and slander suits.
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The current law generally requires that defamed individuals must be alive to sue for libel or slander.
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If you are a public figure, like Trump, then winning a libel case is even more difficult.
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Ressa is facing libel and tax charges in the Philippines, actions the company's supporters call politically motivated.
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Trump has faced a firestorm of criticism since his remarks Friday promising to "open up" libel laws.
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She is also suing both Trump and Cohen for libel for denying her claims of an affair.
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To "open up" libel law would mean open season on Trump himself, to be sued for defamation.
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But he is also running on a promise to make it easier to sue journalists for libel.
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The president has openly discussed an interest in loosening up libel laws and frequently derides the media.
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The filings came a day before the statute of limitations for a libel claim would have expired.
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Much has changed about libel in the 130 years since undertaker Holmes undertook to sue The Times.
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In Australia, the United States and many other countries, truth is the best defense against libel charges.
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He is also being sued for libel in United States courts by several Chinese individuals and companies.
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Trump encouraged Kavanaugh, whose appointment cemented the Supreme Court's 5-4 conservative majority, to sue for libel.
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Mr. Gorsuch mocked the "professional protesters" who had created the posters, and he threatened a libel suit.
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"The essence of a libel claim, of course, is the protection of one's reputation," Mr. McCraw wrote.
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Eight days after Congress fired the Commodore, the Commodore filed a criminal libel action against the whistleblowers.
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We saw Mr. Steele swearing one thing in a public libel suit against him in London, England.
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On Wednesday the site's exec editor Maria Ressa was arrested in connection with dubious "cyber libel" charges.
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She was taken into custody on "cyber libel" charges against Rappler, the online news site she runs.
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They used libel suits as a way to discourage coverage of the movement by national news organizations.
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August 6: The British diver Musk called a "pedo" prepares to sue him, accusing him of libel.
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For figures like Mr. Berezovsky and Mr. Mahfouz, Britain's libel laws provided the perfect shield against scrutiny.
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"The constitutional libel rules adopted by this Court in New York Times and its progeny broke sharply from the common law of libel, and there are sound reasons to question whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments displaced this body of common law," he wrote in his 14-page opinion.
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Some posted responses to the prime minister's statement on Facebook, urging him to sue his siblings for libel.
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Trump has said he'd like to "open up" libel law, presumably so he can sue people more easily.
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It's libel and slander…Do you think those kids would still be there if this was all true?
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And Trump has even vowed to change the libel laws to crack down on the media criticizing him.
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TODAY'S NUMBER $11 million The amount awarded to an Ohio bakery in its libel lawsuit against Oberlin College.
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Donald Trump threatened on Friday to change America's libel laws to make it easier to sue media companies.
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The charges include breach of public peace, abuse of emergency calls, defamation/libel, threats, robbery, extortion, and fraud.
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Thomas took aim at the unanimous ruling in the libel case known as New York Times Co. v.
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Her assets had been frozen as part of a libel case, one of 47 suits pending against her.
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Court records show that Trump or his businesses have themselves been sued several times for libel or defamation.
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Several justices wondered how to avoid problems of slander or libel if offensive trademarks can never be rejected.
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He sued Pepper for libel, and in October of 2000, a judge awarded him $11 million in damages.
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Critics have pointed to his threat to "open up" the libel laws so he can sue the media.
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The paper has been accused of "libel and publishing falsehoods to create public anxiety," according to its website.
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A decade ago Mr. Trump sued one of them, Timothy O'Brien, an editor at Bloomberg View, for libel.
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He next turned to journalists, but they would not report on his findings for fear of libel suits.
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We already restrict speech in cases of libel, fighting words, in professional settings, and with regard to commerce.
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He said he would "loosen" libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations that displease him.
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For one thing, libel and the protection of free speech are not, by nature, liberal versus conservative issues.
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The court, however, has not shown much interest in libel law in a long time, legal experts say.
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He sued Musk in 2009, alleging libel and accusing Musk of taking unfair credit for the Tesla Roadster.
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More generally, Mr. Trump has discussed revising libel laws to make it easier to sue over critical coverage.
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During his speech, he mocked Planned Parenthood for not putting libel or defamation in the suit against him.
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Wood has promised a libel suit as well against CBS, which issued a statement standing by its broadcast.
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Jacobus sued Trump for libel, claiming his tweets and his followers' responses damaged her reputation and professional opportunities.
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He has called for changes in the law to make it easier to sue news organizations for libel.
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Other libel laws are determined at the state level, where Mr. Trump, as president, has no direct influence.
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To be sure, this would tie their hands more: Unlike "hate speech," libel and slander have legal meanings.
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He knew many of its reporters and editors, and his firm represented the paper in a libel suit.
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Here, David McCraw, deputy general counsel at The Times, talks about the paper's history of handling libel claims.
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Tab uses traditional journalism tools like Freedom of Information Act filings, door-to-door sleuthing and libel training.
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Mr. Obeidallah is seeking compensatory damages and a jury trial, alleging libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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American anti-Semitism was nasty, but the blood libel seems never before to have figured into its rhetoric.
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But even if a Québécois laborer brought the libel to Massena, why did it find such ready acceptance?
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Mr. Simmons is suing the companies on four counts of libel and one count of invasion of privacy.
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Mr. Deripaska has denied ever entering into such an arrangement and sued The A.P. for libel last month.
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More broadly, France's laws can be restrictive of free speech in cases of defamation, libel, slander and privacy.
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Ressa, founder and editor of the online news outlet Rappler, faces "cyber libel" charges over a 2012 article.
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We lawyers have learned that we cannot help victims of libel and slander with the laws we have.
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For instance, we may see an impact on data collection in the private sector or India's libel laws.
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Trump has harped on the issue repeatedly, publicly calling on politicians to change the currently standing libel laws.
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More broadly, France's laws can be restrictive of free speech in cases of defamation, libel, slander and privacy.
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They denied the charges and Muscat was suing Caruana Galizia for libel at the time of her death.
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The same newspaper accused Israel of harvesting Palestinian organs in 2009 — the modern equivalent of the blood libel.
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In February, Ms. Ressa was arrested at the airport in Manila in a case related to digital libel.
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There might be an opening, for example, for a Trump administration to aggressively pursue libel suits against journalists.
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In January, he spoke about his plans to examine and strengthen the libel laws in the United States.
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After a long campaign by free-speech organizations, the British libel law was finally amended five years ago.
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He once advocated "open[ing] up" the libel laws so he could sue media organizations that falsely criticized him.
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Sater and Trump developed a rapport during that time, Sater said during sworn testimony in an unrelated libel case.
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Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 425.163-80 (1964) (public official must prove actual malice to win libel case); Gertz v.
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Hall was quick to deny O'Connor's claims at the time and filed a $5 million libel lawsuit against her.
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Rebel Wilson has won a record payout, plus interest and court costs, in her libel case against Bauer Media.
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Although not personally accused of wrongdoing, he pressed a $250 million libel suit, arguing he was defamed by association.
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On Tuesday, Kardashian filed a libel suit against the website, which had posted and ultimately removed the sensational stories.
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Unfortunately for the couple, Giustibelli decided the reviews (which were false), constituted libel, so being a lawyer, she sued.
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It will probably soften criminal penalties for libel and lift some restrictions on private ownership that have crimped investment.
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Less than one month later, the star sued her ex for $15 million in a slander and libel lawsuit.
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Readers can get their royal gossip from foreign publications that are not bound by British privacy or libel laws.
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If you fail to address this libel I will have no option other than to take immediate legal action.
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Trump has threatened to sue news organizations and mused about changing libel laws if he wins the White House.
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The two suits, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, accuse the network of libel and invasion of privacy.
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"Not only are [these accusations] untrue, they also contain intentionally misleading information—it's both libel and slander," she said.
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Germany's strict libel and slander laws are meant to protect citizens by making it a crime to defame others.
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" A guest lecturer promulgates the blood libel that Jewish leaders "mine" Palestinian children's "body parts for research and experimentation.
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ChemRisk sued them for libel, first in New York, where the case was thrown out, and then in Massachusetts.
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" Trump has repeatedly threatened to change libel laws to go after The New York Times for "getting him wrong.
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However, as in the prosecution of libel, intent matters far more than consequences for the existence of a crime.
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The likelier answer is that their misdeeds are better shielded from public scrutiny by their respective countries' libel laws.
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Under American law, whoever sues a journalist or publication for libel must prove that the defamatory material was false.
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Her charge is related to a 28503 article and the "cyber libel law," which didn't take effect until 22019.
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But that doesn't make Trump's central idea any less jarring: that libel law can be a tool of revenge.
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He was tried not once but twice, and only after he withdraw a criminal libel lawsuit against his accuser.
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Libel on Twitter is the responsibility of the person who posts it, not the company that provides the platform.
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As the list circulated, there was a lot of hand-wringing about libel and the ethics of anonymous disclosure.
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But that will only really help me make a case for a later lawsuit when you nonetheless libel us.
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Truth is a defense to libel, so safeguarding the accuracy of our stories protects the newspaper against legal liability.
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The rape of a woman is a violent crime; compounding that crime with acts of malicious libel is abhorrent.
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But not in Britain, thanks to its strict libel laws and the efforts of its fearsome "reputation-management" industry.
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Section 230 has been invoked for a lot of bad content — libel, shady gun sales, even defective dog collars.
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That same day, Unsworth's attorney, L. Lin Wood, announced he was preparing a civil complaint for libel against Musk.
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No. Libel law is a state-law tort, meaning that state courts and state legislatures have defined its contours.
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Judge Gorsuch's decisions in libel and related cases show no inclination to cut back on protections for the press.
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For now, Roth said, Trump's threat to change libel laws is just "another silly declaration" from the White House.
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The bar for libel and defamation is high in the United States given the power of the First Amendment.
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Sullivan, the landmark libel ruling, and argued that the fight for abortion rights shares roots with the eugenics movement.
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Mr. Obeidallah filed his in August 2017, alleging libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and seeking compensatory damages.
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Sater and Trump grew their rapport during that time, Sater said during sworn testimony in an unrelated libel case.
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He already said he would expand libel laws to sue anyone who "writes a negative hit piece" about him.
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A bot will eventually get things wrong if it is fed inaccurate information, and the bot could commit libel.
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So she's dropped the libel claim -- the judge already dismissed a separate defamation claim -- but the case isn't over.
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For journalists or activists, life is even harder, especially in places like England that have costly and risky libel courts.
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David Irving is a real-life history writer who, in 1996, sued historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books for libel.
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" Lewis wrote that "in the broadest sense the libel suits were a challenge to the principles of the First Amendment.
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Until he and his organization are bankrupted for libel, he will have many other ways to spread his noxious bile.
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Journalists and whistleblowers may have won dismissal of Trump's libel lawsuits, but at significant cost of time, energy, and money.
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The National Bureau of Investigation last year concluded it had grounds to file a criminal complaint around the libel claim.
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" His lawyer later threatened to sue the newspaper and demanded a retraction, calling the article "reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel.
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A veteran journalist, Ms Ressa is accused of "cyber libel" in connection with a piece published almost seven years ago.
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She was confident she would win the Malta libel suits, where, in any case, maximum damages total 11,647 euros ($13,728).
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The junta, meanwhile, is trying to quell criticism of the commission, charging activists who have documented its bias with libel.
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He forfeited millions in bonus money, repaid a British libel settlement and was essentially pushed out of his own foundation.
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We have agency—which, unlike the right to burn an American flag, our existing libel laws, access to healthcare, etc.
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Email fights with reporters, a possible libel suit in the offing, a brow-furrowing interview with The New York Times.
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The libel and the privacy laws in England are now the envy of the world for every reprobate out there.
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All have denied the accusations and Galizia was hit with 36 libel suits in the nine months preceding her death.
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In 2014, she won a landmark $8 million Twitter libel case brought against her by her former attorney, Rhonda Holmes.
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Justice Elena Kagan has already voiced skepticism about the extension of Sullivan too far into other kinds of libel cases.
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Bonnici said the government had made strides to improve the freedom of journalists since the murder, including abolishing criminal libel.
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In the end, the libel and other charges against Father Farrell were dropped after the wiretap testimony proved flawed. Sgt.
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Economy Minister Chris Cardona claimed libel when she wrote that he visited a brothel while in Germany on government business.
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It'd be a shame if we all went in digital hiding knowing that the government is on a libel hunt.
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Similarly, Trump's promises to make it easier to sue news organizations by loosening U.S. libel laws is a complete nonstarter.
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Dr. Paustenbach may face consequences from the company's decision to withdraw its libel action, if he takes the witness stand.
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During his presidential campaign, Trump suggested opening up libel laws to make it easier to sue journalists and news organizations.
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By the time of her death, Ms Caruana Galizia faced 42 pending libel suits and a protracted list of enemies.
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Trump has in the past suggested politicians should update libel laws to make it easier to sue over critical content.
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Be careful next time you tweet something negative about a public figure; you might be open to a libel case.
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Mexican lawmakers could pass a law making it harder for public officials and other public figures to sue for libel.
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She was arrested Wednesday by the country's government over years-old libel charges and has since been released on bail.
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Trump's suit against O'Brien is one of seven forays President-elect Trump and his companies have made as libel plaintiffs.
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This goes back to the blood libel stories about Jews kidnapping Gentile children and us[ing] their blood for seders.
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Briles -- who was fired back in May -- just sued 3 school regents and a vice president for libel and slander.
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Notably, his lawyers called the Times article "libel per se," which means that it is false and defamatory in nature.
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Libel, on the other hand, is the act of damaging a person's reputation with a written or published false statement.
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Justice Elena Kagan, for example, has voiced concerns that Sullivan has been improperly extended into certain kinds of libel cases.
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Sullivan, the 1964 decision that provided the press with broad First Amendment protections against libel suits brought by public officials.
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One of Mr. Duterte's backers has directly taken aim at Ms. Laurio, accusing her in a lawsuit of online libel.
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"Glenn Simpson changed 800 years of English libel law," Mr. Karle, the paper's former general counsel, said of one case.
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It was one of dozens of libel suits being used by Southern power brokers to try to silence the press.
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Sullivan led to a series of other court decisions that curtailed the ability of libel plaintiffs to win their lawsuits.
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It's why a site like Twitter doesn't face legal action if some rando egg tweets out threatening messages or libel.
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But an assertion of fact soberly presented from someone in a position to know the truth can amount to libel.
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The cornerstone of American legal jurisprudence in the field of media libel law literally has the Times' name on it.
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He adamantly denies the claims and is currently facing a libel suit filed against him by one of his accusers.
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As a matter of fact, the most consequential libel case in contemporary American history, The New York Times Company v.
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Stewart B. Dunsker, Cincinnati Not every victory for a libel plaintiff is part of a "darkening cloud" for the press.
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President Trump has talked about opening up libel law, though I doubt that this is what he had in mind.
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" But he dropped the plan within days, before Mr. Ratcliffe was formally nominated, accusing the media of "slander and libel.
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A federal judge in New York recently tossed the libel lawsuit filed by Sarah Palin against the New York Times.
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Protecting "the" freedom of speech also incorporated long-standing common law principles about the limitations of libel, slander, and reputation.
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Reconsidering libel: Justice Clarence Thomas has urged the Supreme Court to revisit its landmark ruling in New York Times v.
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"To the Guild's knowledge, no prior President has sued a writer for libel, and for good reason," reads the statement.
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This money libel, in which Jews are accused of draining money from world coffers, is the modern version of the blood libel, in which Jews were accused of draining the blood of Christian babies for ritual use, which itself was a medieval renewal of the ancient accusation that Jews were the killers of Christ.
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Sullivan, which makes it difficult for public figures to sue the news media for libel, and of the 21979 Roe v.
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When he refused, JetSmarter sued him for libel, saying Maestrales was a competitor who published the statements to harm JetSmarter's business.
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The total damages being sought by BPI is $1.9 billion, but under South Dakota libel laws that amount could potentially triple.
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To prove libel, a public figure must show a writer or publisher acted with actual malice in publishing a false statement.
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They could be fully responsible for all the content on their networks, subject to libel laws (which they are not now).
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One specific example was Brett Ratner and his lawyer, Marty Singer, who recently dropped a libel suit against actress Melanie Kohler.
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Lawmakers slammed White House chief of staff Reince Priebus's remark from Sunday that the Trump administration is considering changing libel laws.
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The lawsuit claims Future's recent tweets and statements made about Ciara and the couple's son, Future Jr., constitute libel and slander.
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The Supreme Court laid out the constitutional basis for libel laws roughly 50 years ago in New York Times v. Sullivan.
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You can't be part of slander and libel, as you have to prove that you were doing the stuff recklessly. Right.
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Even after the retraction, Rolling Stone went on to face three separate libel cases, one of which has since been dismissed.
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Jamaica from 2011 to 2013 repealed its laws that criminalized libel and amended constitutional provisions regarding freedom of expression, it said.
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Exceptions for falsehoods are already part of our libel jurisprudence, but the worrisome nature of that comment lies in its vagueness.
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CNN has suffered a legal setback in its effort to prevent a libel lawsuit against the news organization from moving forward.
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But in Britain, where libel laws differ from those in the United States, the burden of proof is on the defendant.
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They have all denied the accusations and Galizia was hit with 36 libel suits in the nine months preceding her death.
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When they reported the misconduct to Congress, the commanding officer charged Shaw and Marven with libel, and both men were jailed.
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The Times had struggled to defend itself because Alabama, like most states then, had adopted libel rules favorable to the plaintiff.
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When the Supreme Court took the case, libel was seen as a state law claim that didn't implicate the First Amendment.
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In states with such laws, defendants can sometimes seek early dismissal of libel and similar suits and recover their legal fees.
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Earlier this year, actor Geoffrey Rush won a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Telegraph, under Australia's notoriously strict libel laws.
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Libel is a state-law tort constrained by First Amendment principles, and a president's views do not figure in its application.
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If Trump truly wanted to sue all these "failing" news organizations for libel under a British system, he could ... in Britain.
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He filed a $147.5 million libel suit against The New York Times and a member of its editorial board in October.
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Apart from facing long odds, a Trump libel lawsuit would also force the president to participate in an intrusive disclosure process.
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In the year since he declared himself a candidate for president, he has vowed to "open up" the country's libel laws.
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Sullivan, arose during the civil-rights era when Southern officials regularly tried to squelch unfavorable newspaper coverage with egregious libel claims.
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We're going to open up libel laws, and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before.
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When I spoke to Gable, he referred coolly to Collins's refusal to "out" himself as Searchlight's mole in the libel case.
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He has vowed to "open up" the nation's libel laws, even though those statutes are in fact state, not federal, laws.
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After his election loss, Goldwater successfully sued the magazine for libel; the $75,000 settlement put the small publication out of business.
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Mr. Hauss, the A.C.L.U. lawyer, said the Garrison decision did not address the argument that criminal libel laws are unconstitutionally vague.
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"Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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In April, he sued four of his accusers — Leigh Corfman, Debbie Gibson, Tina Johnson and Beverly Nelson — for libel and slander.
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"Not all liar libel cases are created equal," said Mr. Niehoff, who teaches at the University of Michigan School of Law.
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THE ACCUSATION Blood Libel in an American Town By Edward Berenson There's nothing like a presidential campaign to awaken dormant hatreds.
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Tiffany Wells is suing for libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
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Alwaleed has courted controversy on occasion, suing Forbes for libel in 2013 after it said he was worth only $20 billion.
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Publication in the spiritual home of the libel complaint does not, however, mean Mr Low will necessarily consider his efforts wasted.
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Between libel and copyright laws and a fear of stirring the pot, we tend to do political humor that's very chummy.
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A persistent libel plaintiff, Murray claims Oliver defamed the company by, among other things, deliberately misrepresenting its concern for its workers.
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Usmanov, in interviews with Russian media, denied the allegations, accused Navalny of libel, and said he would take him to court.
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However, the article was published by Rappler two years before the new cyber libel laws came into effect in the Philippines.
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David McCraw, a lawyer for The Times, responded that Mr. Trump's reputation was too tarnished to allow a successful libel suit.
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The Jews of Trent — and they were very much The Other at the time — were tortured into confessing this blood libel.
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That included one in New York with Holtzman and a prominent libel lawyer, Paul Tweed, that was detailed in the documents.
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Sullivan, the landmark 1964 ruling interpreting the First Amendment to make it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Back Henry Street now has a pinned post which reminds fans of posting rules and the dangers of potential libel.
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Back in the 1930s, American Nazis would sometimes file libel and defamation lawsuits as a way to intimidate their anti-Nazi adversaries.
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The news site also faces a cyber libel complaint from a businessman over a 2012 report on human trafficking and drug smuggling.
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Francis Lim, a Rappler legal counsel, said the libel case was suddenly revived after it had originally been dismissed for lacking merit.
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Unlike Trump, Netanyahu has actually gone one step further and successfully sued a high-profile journalist for libel after decades in politics.
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Online defamation cases are commonplace now, but at that point, experts weren't sure exactly how libel law should apply to the web.
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And any attempt to "open up those libel laws", allowing Mr Trump to sue the "dishonest" press, will face First-Amendment challenges.
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Tough libel laws would have tamed newspapers and the curriculum of all the schools would have emphasized strict adherence to federal leadership.
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On Tuesday Ressa appeared in a Manila court to continue her appeal against a "cyber libel" charge brought against her organization, Rappler.
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The possible punishment for "cyber libel" has now been changed from one year to 12 years in prison, Ressa said on Tuesday.
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"The libel suits were part of a wider strategy to shut her up," said Corinne Vella, one of Caruana Galizia's three sisters.
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The GOP nominee said earlier this year that he intends to "open up" libel laws, making it easier to sue news organizations.
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I think our David French had a good New York Times column today or yesterday about why not use the libel standards?
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The venture led to a bitter libel lawsuit against the Sacramento Bee over stories about the family&aposs Ormsby House hotel-casino.
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All the checks and balances that govern traditional media would not apply; with no libel risk there were, in effect, no rules.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a statement later that Mr. Abbas had spread a "blood libel" in the speech.
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Laws against libel or invasion of privacy may deter some abuses, but they are not much use when the perpetrator is unknown.
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Remarkably, while working for Weinstein, Boies also served as a libel lawyer for The New York Times, which was investigating Weinstein, too.
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In 2005, he and his publisher were sued for libel by the family that took him in when he was a teenager.
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Adapting still another blood libel, Palestinian leaders often charge that Jews kill Palestinian children and use their blood to make Passover matzah.
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Taken one at a time, his lies are medium-size — not trivial, but mostly not rising to the level of blood libel.
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He also denied that either Saudi Arabia or the White House were involved in AMI's stories on Bezos, calling the claim "libel."
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In 2005, she won a libel suit, filed in Spain, against Fidel Castro's estranged daughter for calling Ms. Castro's father a murderer.
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For example, any statement at issue in a libel action was presumed to be false, and the publisher's fault was presumed, too.
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In its decision March 9, 1964, the Supreme Court reversed the jury award and brought libel law into the First Amendment's orbit.
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The definition of libel is straightforward: It's a written, published communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of the subject.
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Trump says he wants to "open up our libel laws" so he can sue news outlets and "win lots of money." pic.twitter.
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Collins remembered Gable's asking him, as a teen-ager, to put his life at risk to protect Searchlight in the libel case.
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While the firm has provided The Times with legal counsel in three matters, it provided counsel in one libel case — not three.
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The cornerstones of the country's libel laws are a series of landmark Supreme Court cases, and more are likely on their way.
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To assert that the framers of the Constitution would be comfortable with such a result is to utter a grave historical libel.
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" He called the SPLC a "far-left smear organization that only wants to libel, slander, and defame this president with its lies.
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For example, between 2010 and 2017, The Times had 11 libel suits, all but one of them filed in the United States.
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As powerful as Sullivan has been in curbing libel suits, it doesn't really change the way newspaper lawyers go about their jobs.
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For example, for centuries people repeated the "blood libel" — the claim that Jews sacrificed Christian babies as part of the Passover ritual.
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That's not to mention his troubles with Securities and Exchange Commission (which were settled) and the recent libel suit (which he won).
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Gubarev is suing BuzzFeed News for libel for publishing the dossier, saying the dossier contains false information about him and his business.
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" Solomon said he used Toensing and diGenova "for libel review, to help review book and movie offers, and to do personnel contracts.
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Trump has pushed back on some of the claims and has used the book to suggest that libel laws should be changed.
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President Donald Trump's reelection campaign announced their plans to sue The New York Times for libel in a Wednesday afternoon news release.
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If you're not naming her because you are worried about a libel or defamation suit, then the article should not be published.
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His libel suit against the company that owned The Journal lingered in the courts for years before the final claim was dismissed.
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Skeptical judges turned away his libel suit against a journalist who wrote a book calling into question the amount of his wealth.
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Consider the first paragraph of a 2011 libel decision, which dispensed with the throat-clearing and jargon that characterizes many judicial opinions.
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During the campaign he demonstrated no special concern for free speech, advocating looser libel laws and barring certain news organizations from events.
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How will freedom of the press weather the storm of a man who feuds with the media and demands looser libel laws?
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Both Stockdale and Wilson ended badly — Stockdale ruined by libel suits brought by other aristocrats, and Wilson ending her days in obscurity.
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The billionaire has been engaging in union-busting and was slapped with a libel suit after baselessly calling someone a pedophile on Twitter.
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Found guilty of libel and sentenced to prison, Zola fled to England with no idea of when it might be safe to return.
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So far this year, Mr Sechin has won libel cases against the Russian publications Vedomosti, Novaya Gazeta, and RBC, a leading business publication.
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" The president bemoaned what he said were "very weak" libel laws in the US. "If they were strong, it would be very helpful.
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In 2007, Peterson filed a libel lawsuit against Grisham, Mayer, and Fritz (who wrote his own book), which was ultimately dropped in 20063.
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Duterte's spokesman, Salvador Panelo, said the libel case was "absolutely unrelated" to the government and that Duterte had no interest in punishing journalists.
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He talks about "open[ing] up the libel laws" so he can sue news organizations to punish them for being critical of him.
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Then there are Mr Trump's attacks on the press, and his snarling promises to tighten libel laws against what he calls "fake news".
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Australia's libel system, which dictates that accusers rather than people accused must prove their claims, is complicating Stone's situation, according to the Times.
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Trump may publicly praise the British system of defamation law, but privately, to him, American libel law is what makes America great ... again.
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And remember also — this isn't in the series because it's not relevant, but late in the trial Mark Fuhrman sued me for libel.
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His denunciations of the press and his threat to change libel laws seem to be resonating with a large number of his followers.
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He was talking briefly about changing libel laws and they were going to move the press cohort out of the White House, etc.
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Last Friday, President Donald Trump's legal team formally requested that a New York judge halt a libel suit filed against him in January.
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Trump's dance on immigration On the campaign trail, Trump has proposed changing U.S. libel laws so that politicians can more easily sue journalists.
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America's protection of press freedoms is strong and well entrenched and libel law makes it difficult to win a case against a journalist.
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Still, for anyone concerned about Thiel's politics — whether it's libel laws, higher education, or gender politics — that may not be a comforting thought.
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Rees went so far as to send a letter warning investigators that they were courting libel suits by continuing to investigate these players.
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After Father Farrell bristled publicly at the city's actions, he was questioned by city officials at a government hearing and charged with libel.
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After the speech on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said that Mr. Abbas had spread a "blood libel" with his remarks.
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There are still strong libel laws and if someone publishes false information with no regard to the truth, they should be held accountable.
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The American Bar Association won't publish a report finding Donald Trump to be a "libel bully" for fear of being sued by him.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," Marc E. Kasowitz, Mr. Trump's lawyer, wrote in a letter to The Times.
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Ms. Stevens, the bar association spokeswoman, emphatically denied that the fear of a libel suit had played any role in the association's objections.
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"I would absolutely work to open up the libel laws," Trump said in a fiery interview with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace.
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Goldwater successfully sued Fact for libel after he lost the election, leading to the rule's addition to the American Psychiatric Association's ethics guidelines.
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If libel is a tennis match, the claimant must hit three important balls across the net to get his game off the ground.
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Five years later, in 2017, Keng filed a "cyber libel" complaint against Ressa, a researcher at Rappler, and six members of Rappler's board.
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If you're a psychiatrist who makes a suspect diagnosis that damages the reputation of an individual, well, that sounds a lot like libel.
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He continues to accuse one of the Thai cave rescuers of pedophilia, and this week, his target, Vernon Unsworth, sued him for libel.
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" • The president also repeated a pledge to make it easier for people to sue for defamation, denouncing U.S. libel laws as a "sham.
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There are exceptions for libel, incitement, obscenity and fighting words, and one for "true threats," which is at issue in Mr. Knox's case.
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Han denied abusing Cerio or any other gymnast, Terri Laymon said, and threatened to sue her for slander, libel and defamation of character.
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Sullivan was a 9-0 smackdown of plaintiffs who saw libel suits as a legal extortion racket to be used to silence publishers.
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President Donald Trump's reelection campaign sued CNN on Friday for libel, following similar lawsuits against The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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Generally speaking, it is more difficult to succeed in libel suits when the allegedly libelous statements are presented as opinions, rather than facts.
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The libel case was thrown out last October by a federal judge, who ordered Daniels to pay Trump's legal fees in the case.
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Today, Team Trump filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Times over a story falsely reporting as fact a conspiracy with Russia.
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In a prepared statement before a Cabinet meeting, Trump vows to take a "strong look" at libel laws in response to Wolff's book.
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On Sunday, Ressa criticized her indictment because it invokes a "cyber libel" law that was enacted two years after the article was published.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday criticized a major First Amendment precedent regarding the application of state libel laws to public figures.
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Among Judge Norris's more than 400 other opinions was a 1990 ruling overturning the singer Wayne Newton's $5.2 million libel award against NBC.
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It went from tax evasion, to more tax evasion, to fraud and libel, and now it is working its way up to murder.
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During an interview with ABC's "This Week," the president's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, admitted the administration has "looked at" changing libel laws.
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There is no indication that his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, has any unusual opinions on the First Amendment's limitations on libel lawsuits.
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I think the thing that a lot of people know about libel is it's very tough in the U.S. to bring a libel suit; very easy in the U.K. But what is it like when we're publishing here mostly out of New York, but also all around the world, to readers nearly all around the world, except where we are blocked, like China?
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She reported in the Guardian that Philby had fled to Russia, but the story was largely buried by her editors, fearing a libel suit.
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Critics saw her as a muck-raking fantasist and she had been hit with 36 libel lawsuits in the nine months preceding her death.
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Now, as Ravenel awaits trial, Dawn has filed a lawsuit against Ravenel for "assault, slander and libel," according to a complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
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That's when Charles Harder, an attorney who has represented Trump on several libel and defamation cases, urged the Supreme Court to revisit the case.
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The couple later won a libel suit against a Portuguese detective who wrote a book claiming the McCanns were involved in her vanishing act.
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Trump filed his first and crankiest libel lawsuit in 1984 against the Chicago Tribune and the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, Paul Gapp.
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Unlike financial damages in US courts, any potential damages won by Unsworth in the English libel action would be capped at around £300,000 ($395,000).
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This was the first and only time that the so-called "blood libel," which flourished in medieval Europe, gained traction in the United States.
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If reporters were not given accreditation, it is "probably because of the libel and distortions that were spread by such mass media," said Maduro.
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So if I go on Twitter and I libel people, the people who I have libeled can sue me, but they can't sue Twitter.
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Maybe Trump would be willing to suffer through discovery if he stood a legitimate chance of convincing a jury that the Times committed libel.
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Diver attacked by Elon Musk as 'pedo guy' is prepping a libel suit Warren Buffett has even weighed in on Musk's social media use.
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Charles Koch has described as a "a blood libel" the idea he would instead support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee for the Nov.
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The psychiatrists, none of whom had examined Goldwater, largely echoed that sentiment in their responses, and after Goldwater lost, he sued successfully for libel.
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Thompson said he asked Trump last Tuesday about his threats to harden the nation's libel laws and whether he's committed to the First Amendment.
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Trump responded by saying Amazon might be a monopoly that should be broken up, and that he was considering suing the Post for libel.
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Eberhard later sued Musk for libel and slander, alleging Musk had downplayed Eberhard's contributions and that Musk was claiming he was a co-founder.
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NYT Trump wanted to sue the NYT for libel last October when they ran an article featuring two women accusing him of sexual misconduct.
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Abbas knows full well the implications of declaring Israelis guilty of a modern-day blood libel of child murder – by poisoning a baby, no less.
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Were we supposed to forget Trump's unconstitutional calls for mass deportations, war crimes, and "opening up libel laws" to better facilitate lawsuits against journalists?
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An eclectic group is financially backing TechDirt, a tech news site being sued for libel by the same lawyer who helped take down Gawker.
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The issue still for Future, there's still a count of libel and distortion left in the case ... which could hang him out to dry.
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Thirty-six opposition figures are accused of cyber libel and sedition for orchestrating a series of online videos ahead of May's mid-term elections.
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A federal court clerk on Tuesday sided with Muslim comedian and liberal commentator Dean Obeidallah in his libel lawsuit against a notorious neo-Nazi.
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DENIAL In one of her books, a historian (Rachel Weisz) calls a man (Timothy Spall) a Holocaust denier, and he sues her for libel.
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After a legal complaint, Hopkins was forced to apologise to the family, and the MailOnline paid £150,000 in libel damages to the Mahmood family.
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He often calls for loosening the nation's relatively strong libel laws, which protect news outlets from bad-faith litigation by the wealthy and powerful.
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So he likened Alabama's libel rules to those of the Sedition Act of 1798, which made it a crime to criticize the federal government.
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Mr. Trump also warned through his lawyer that he might sue The Times for libel if it did not retract the article and apologize.
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Trump on Monday refiled a $150 million libel lawsuit against the Daily Mail after the suit was previously dismissed in Maryland on judicial grounds.
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"The bar to sue for libel and defamation in Hong Kong is very low, which is totally the opposite from the US," Cheng said.
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There's no question that "open[ing] up libel laws" would have a devastating impact on the press's ability to speak truth to government power.
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The blood libel has proved startlingly resilient, recurring across medieval and early modern Europe, and reappearing in tsarist Russia in the early twentieth century.
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He has vowed to tighten libel laws to make it easier for people to sue news organizations, and threatened to challenge NBC's broadcast license.
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"President Trump's threat to revise our country's libel laws is, frankly, not credible," the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Louisiana, struck down a state criminal libel law, but only because it did not require proof of actual malice in cases concerning public officials.
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We spend lots of time considering the line between opinion (which is legally protected) and fact (which can give rise to a libel suit).
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Nonetheless, legislators who want to keep our national political life civil and stable would do well to think about libel reform — for government speech.
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The musicologist Raymond Erickson has highlighted a document known as the Gutachten , published in Leipzig in 1714, which denounces the blood libel as baseless.
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And a rising drumbeat of legal efforts — from whistle-blower prosecutions to libel suits — aims to weaken longstanding safeguards for journalists and their sources.
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Huawei has also filed libel complaints in France against a researcher, Valérie Niquet of the Foundation for Strategic Research, a think tank in Paris.
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He had already vowed to change the libel laws to make it easier to sue journalists, and his personal insults were becoming more vicious.
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That's not the most pressing question raised by the libel lawsuit that Melania Trump filed last week against the website of The Daily Mail.
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News outlets reporting the identity of a suspect before a charge is brought often face costly libel and breach of privacy lawsuits in Ireland.
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On Sunday, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer revealed that Trudeau had threatened to sue him for libel over a Facebook post about the scandal.
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First lady Melania Trump settled a libel suit with The Daily Mail, which reported she'd "provided services beyond simply modeling" in her former job.
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This card was the cause of Wilde's disastrous libel suit against Queensberry, which in turn led to the anti-gay criminal case against Wilde.
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Whistler was a proud peacock, often butting heads with anyone who criticized him or his work — he even sued critic John Ruskin for libel.
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Issa acknowledged the complexities that both constitutional free speech and press guarantees and traditional libel laws bring to any effort to hold misinformation providers accountable.
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Ressa was served an arrest warrant over a libel case live on television in February and spent a night in detention before she was released.
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Trump and Kasowitz, for instance, never followed through with libel suits against the Times – or against any other news organization in the last 30 years.
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Bloomberg View executive editor Timothy L. O'Brien viewed Trump's federal tax returns approximately 10 years ago, after the real estate mogul sued O'Brien for libel.
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He begins his recent book, "Forensic Architecture," recalling the libel trial in London of the Holocaust denier and historian David Irving, nearly two decades ago.
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An attorney for the paper responded with a letter of his own, saying that he would welcome a lawsuit and dispelling the accusation of libel.
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So when accusing a man of being an anti-Semite, let's be a bit factual, lest we falsely libel friends and label allies as foes.
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" He added later that while he "loves" the free press, but "we ought to open up the libel laws, and I'm going to do that.
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However, we have also seen a rising army of apologists who excuse comments like the calls for amending the first amendment or changing libel laws.
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"Our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values and American fairness," he told reporters earlier this year.
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The president also blasted the book on Wednesday, asking why politicians don't change libel laws to punish what he says is a work of fiction.
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Q: Did they really believe it, though, or were they using "blood libel" to get what they wanted, even though they knew it was false?
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Today, both the First Amendment and the common law of defamation take the firm position that group libel is never subject to suit in court.
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In May a court responded to a complaint by Erdogan and banned republication of 18 of 24 sections, saying they amounted to abuse and libel.
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Changed libel laws that, in essence, allow the rich to sue at will could even endanger criticism of the majority party by the minority party.
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Trump, who had courted O'Brien by taking him for rides in his Ferrari and private jet, sued O'Brien for libel in New Jersey in 2006.
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But when the newspaper appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices threw out the Sullivan verdict and set a far stiffer standard for proving libel.
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The report concluded that Mr. Trump was a "libel bully" who had filed many meritless suits attacking his opponents and had never won in court.
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But James Dimos, the association's deputy executive director, objected to the term "libel bully" and other sharp language in the report, saying in an Oct.
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Ressa was served an arrest warrant over a libel case live on television last month and spent a night in detention before she was released.
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With a couple more libel tennis balls to whack over the litigation net stateside, it's a harder game to play for the public figure plaintiff.
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Loosening libel laws and its protections for press writing about public figures would require overturning a 1964 Supreme Court decision or changing the Constitution itself.
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Mr. Boies's firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, has provided outside legal counsel for The Times three times in the last 10 years, including one libel case.
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But it survived unscathed, unlike other outlets like The Manila Times, which was slapped with a libel suit in 1999 and eventually forced to sell.
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Quebec was the region in North America best versed in the blood libel, which had already occasioned anti-Jewish violence in Montreal and Quebec City.
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To prove libel, she would have to show that a false statement was made with either reckless or purposeful disregard for the truth, Overing said.
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" He added that minor inaccuracies in a news report can never serve as the basis for a libel suit, calling that "a First Amendment imperative.
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If the court in Nanterre finds Activision guilty of libel, it could be "a first in the universe of video games in France," said Enfert.
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She was writing a blind item, a description of a scandal so hot that naming names would mean opening herself up to a libel suit.
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That morning Daphne published a blog post about Schembri, the prime minister's chief of staff, and a libel action he was fighting against another politician.
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According to the Vanity Fair report, BuzzFeed believes that more information about how the DNC's system was compromised could exonerate it in an ongoing libel suit.
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Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who is himself suing Caruana Galizia's son for libel over allegations of corruption, says everything will be done to find her killers.
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Why it matters: The case is another First Amendment test for the media, and will further define the scope of food libel laws across the country.
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Late last year, he reached a settlement with CAMH for what he claimed was unfair dismissal and libel, and was awarded over half a million dollars.
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Funny and dumb though the case may be—not too many people are stupid enough to libel a lawyer numerous times online—it's an important judgement.
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In 2006, Peterson sued Grisham and Fritz, who wrote his own book about his harrowing experience in prison for a crime he didn't commit, for libel.
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Book author and former New York Times reporter Timothy O'Brien defeated a Trump libel lawsuit in 2011, after Trump underwent a grueling deposition by O'Brien's lawyers.
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In a libel lawsuit in Britain, the statement is presumed false, and the burden is on the publisher to prove each material fact is substantially true.
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According to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, information service providers are protected from expensive libel lawsuits and other forms of risk that publishers face.
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He pledged last month to "open up libel laws" such that newspapers like the New York Timesand Washington Postwill "have problems" when they publish "hit pieces".
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Trump's implication that Central American asylum seekers are all dangerous gang members is a grotesque blood libel, and it's sad for America how mainstream it's become.
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With five months to go before Election Day, Mr. Trump has already said he would "loosen" libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations.
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If elected, Mr. Trump vows to "open up" American libel laws, making it easier to sue reporters — a weapon of intimidation he deploys liberally in business.
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" In April, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus reportedly said on ABC's "This Week" that the Trump administration has looked at "changing the libel laws.
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"Few principles of law are as well-established as the rule that statements of opinion are not actionable in libel actions," wrote Bertelsman, a Carter appointee.
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"Loren Jacobs was stripped of his rabbinic ordination by the UMJC in 2003, after our judicial board found him guilty of libel," Hornsten told NBC News.
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But freedom to spend money on political speech is not the cause of cronyism any more than freedom of the press is the cause of libel.
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The high bar for winning a libel case in the United States was set in 2100, when the Supreme Court decided New York Times v. Sullivan.
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Under the rules at the time, a libel plaintiff was entitled to victory if he could show that the content that harmed his reputation was false.
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Just the essence of libel law, the First Amendment and democracy explicated in a few lines, and Mr. Trump's demand for a retraction was totally demolished.
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Presidents cannot directly change state laws, so Mr. Trump would effectively have to seek to change the First Amendment principles that constrain the country's libel laws.
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The Supreme Court established the First Amendment principles that govern the country's libel laws in 1964, with its unanimous decision in New York Times v. Sullivan.
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If Mr. Trump were to seek to change the libel laws, he would have to get the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling in Times v.
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Right now, Gizmodo can't be sued out of existence just because one of our readers decides to libel a public official in the comment section below.
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He cites Trump's incitement of violence at his rallies, his threat to use libel and antitrust laws against his opponents, his admiration of strongmen and dictators.
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They aren't upset that he's attacked one of the foundations of an open society — free speech — with his recent call to "open up" the libel laws.
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"If someone was to make a claim against the person writing the post as slander, libel, defamation, whatever, then civil action could be taken," says Yazigi.
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In a brief statement, Almaty police confirmed it was investigating a libel complaint against two news websites but said it could not disclose any other information.
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After the libel action was initiated, Gable took Collins to a West End hotel and asked him if he would give evidence in the court case.
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Mr. Coors apologized for his comments the day after the article appeared, but he also sued the newspaper for libel, saying his words had been distorted.
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It is a crime to libel or defame foreign leaders and public officials or to insult the president, the flag, the army or other national symbols.
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He talked about bolstering libel laws, and White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus admitted that the administration has looked into how to make that happen.
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WikiLeaks said on Twitter that Mr. Assange planned to sue the newspaper for libel over the article, which The New York Times did not independently confirm.
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He has threatened to "open up" federal libel laws and partially repeal the First Amendment in order to sue newspapers for the crime of challenging him.
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Trump claimed in January 2018 that current libel laws were a "sham" as he sought to prevent the publication of a book by writer Michael Wolff.
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Most First Amendment lawyers agree that fundamentally changing the libel law would require a reversal of the landmark Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan.
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" Judge Gorsuch added that minor inaccuracies in a news report can never serve as the basis for a libel suit, calling that "a First Amendment imperative.
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Congress voted unanimously to pay the legal costs for the whistleblowers so that they would have a first-rate defense in the Rhode Island libel case.
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One is that they may have been first time that Trump's desire to change the nation's libel laws made it into the president's official written remarks.
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Many human rights advocates consider these libel charges, along with previous tax evasion charges she's faced, as nothing more than payback and harassment from Duterte. 5.
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K, located on Reichenberger Strasse in Kreuzberg, was searched on the morning of May 29 after police suspected two men wanted for libel were located inside.
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The co-founder of Rappler, an online news start-up critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested in a digital libel case against her media outlet.
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An even bigger invention is Pine's character, a down-and-out journalist named Jay Singletary whose career was ruined when George Hodel sued him for libel.
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In 2017 the Netanyahus won a libel suit against an Israeli journalist who said Sara once kicked her husband out of their car during an argument.
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He warned during the campaign that he would "open up" libel laws to make it easier for him to sue news organizations if he was elected president.
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She has been indicted multiple times on libel and tax evasion charges that critics have described as designed to silence independent media in the southeast Asian country.
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Example: David Hogg has been allowed to slander and libel people by calling them Child murderer's, provoking undeserved boycotts, spreading hatred of opposing views and the likes.
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Rodrigo Duterte Ressa's arrest is under a controversial "cyber-libel" law that came into force in September 2012 — four months after the article in question was published.
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He sued Musk in 2009, accusing Musk of committing libel and slander against him while Eberhard was bound by a nondisparagement agreement that prevented him from responding.
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Just swap "libel" for "art" or "satire" and there is a reasonable argument to be made for allowing at least some of these videos into our discourse.
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So if Elliott's attorneys want to identify the list contributors, they'll have to prove his case of libel before Google can be compelled to provide the information.
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A Better Way to Ban Alex Jones Instead of banning Jones for "hate speech," a slippery category, ban him instead for libel and slander, argues David French.
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Kim Kardashian West sued an online media outlet for libel Tuesday, saying she was wrongly portrayed as a liar and thief after she was attacked in Paris.
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Sure, Trump might have even raised the question at a staff meeting, but the dialogue would have gone something like: Trump: I want to change libel law.
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Although far from routine, Canadian political leaders have sued rival politicians for libel in the past for remarks made outside Parliament, where comments are immune from prosecution.
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The United Kingdom's Daily Mail and Mail Online have agreed to apologize and pay damages to Melania Trump to settle libel lawsuits brought by the first lady.
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"If Mitch McConnell thinks he can use defamation, slander & libel to get me to go away, he's clearly not done his homework," he said in a tweet.
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The "Goodies" singer filed a lawsuit Monday in Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court accusing the rapper, whose real name is Nayvadius Wilburn, of defamation, libel and slander.
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And the Enquirer's covers invariably include statements about celebrities that are deeply misleading, if libel-law-compliant, as well as claims about politicians that are outright lies.
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At the time, Trump told reporters he would "take a look" at libel laws in response to claims made in Wolff's book disputed by the White House.
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They filed a libel suit against The Times, which ended four years later in a landmark ruling by the United States Supreme Court in the paper's favor.
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Trump frequently attacks the press at large, often labeling it as the "enemy of the people" and suggesting that the United States's libel laws should be changed.
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Mr. Rusbridger stared down a libel suit against the newspaper by a powerful former minister involved in the scandal, Jonathan Aitken, who was ultimately jailed for perjury.
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Trump has already worked to attack Woodward's credibility, tweeting Wednesday that the book is full of inaccuracies and suggesting that Congress should change the country's libel laws.
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He has often been the subject of newspaper stories for his personal relationships and had won several libel lawsuits against news outlets before the phone-hacking scandal.
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"The statement noted that Howard was "threatening a libel suit for a book that has not yet been released — and which Howard appears not to have read.
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He is the defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by Diana Molina in Florida on April 21 — alleging assault, libel and slander — for more than $1.5 million.
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But because the nation's libel laws are written at the state level and shaped by Supreme Court precedents, the president has virtually no power to change them.
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Combined with Mr. Trump's promise to "open up" the nation's libel laws, his punitive attitude toward the press has prompted concern among media and free-speech advocates.
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To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, Britain and America are divided by a common libel law — America's appears, in some respects, to be the mirror image of ours.
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To photoshop her on the cover of a newspaper grinning as she gestures to a picture of a wounded Palestinian is nothing less than a blood libel.
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First lady Melania Trump's libel lawsuit against a newspaper says she planned to launch a "broad-based commercial brand," potentially during her time in the White House.
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The altercation occurred just a day after Trump said he wants to weaken libel laws against media outlets to better sue those who report negatively on him.
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BuzzFeed's reported requests come as the news organization faces a libel suit from a Russian technology executive over its decision to publish the full dossier last January.
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The incident on Monday came a day after Trump said he wants to weaken libel laws to make it easier to sue media outlets for negative coverage.
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Rick Scott didn't dwell on making Mexico pay for a wall, banning Muslim immigration, opening up libel laws, abrogating NATO and NAFTA, or other signature Trump themes.
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The bakery and two of its owners then sued the college for libel, in November 2017, accusing it of supporting and stoking the students' claims of racism.
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His turning on the Dreamers like this even as he supposedly advocated for them was a blood libel beyond anything I have heard from an American president.
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This is an especially acute concern for journalists at a time when the incumbent president speaks of strengthening libel laws and runs grievance campaigns against individual reporters.
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While the book's claims were treated with cautious skepticism by other members of the media, Trump slammed Wolff and blamed "weak libel laws" for the book's allegations.
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The Trump campaign's libel lawsuits against The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN mark a dramatic escalation in the president's long fight with the media.
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Lawyers at the firm representing Mr. Deripaska in the libel action did not respond to a request for comment about his offer to cooperate with congressional investigators.
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President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has filed a libel lawsuit against The New York Times over an opinion article published last year about Trump's dealings with Russia.
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I'm told by the legal department here that the last time the newspaper lost a libel suit in the United States was at least the early 1960s.
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From the first moments when Topsy devolved into the pickaninny, African-Americans worked to counter the libel that their kids were not vulnerable and not really children.
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The president, in a Sunday tweet, suggested the justice should sue for libel, and that the allegations were an attempt to influence his decisions from the bench.
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Sullivan, the Supreme Court has placed constitutional limits on how states can define libel, notably by requiring public officials and, later, public figures to prove actual malice.
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BuzzFeed is arguing that the DNC has information that could link Gubarev to the 2016 Russian hack into the committee's servers, which would undermine his libel complaint.
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Khan and two other Russian investors in the financial institution Alfa Bank filed a libel suit against the firm last fall, claiming the dossier damaged their reputations.
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"To the extent people are worried that President Trump has an anti-libel-protection project," Professor Volokh said, "there's nothing to suggest Neil would share that project."
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Mr. Modamani's lawyer argued that his client would continue to be a victim of libel until Facebook used its algorithms to prevent the image from being reproduced.
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