Libel

Lawyer for former Infowars host Alex Jones loses disciplinary suspension appeal over medical records

A state appeals court has upheld the law license suspension of attorney Norm Pattis—a lawyer for former Infowars host Alex Jones—who improperly disclosed the sensitive medical files of a Sandy Hook Elementary School family during a 2022 defamation trial.

Dec 16, 2025 12:28 PM CST

‘Lawyers Gone Wild’? Filmmaker criticizes bar as he seeks ethics probe of serial killer’s daughter for alleged lie

An activist filmmaker seeking an ethics probe into a lawyer he accuses of lying about a lawsuit outcome has filed a complaint in which he takes potshots at the Florida Bar, touts his award-winning work and quotes rapper Eminem.

Dec 3, 2025 3:11 PM CST

Google’s AI platforms spread ‘radioactive lies’ about conservative activist, suit says

Conservative activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck alleges in a lawsuit that Google’s artificial intelligence platforms are portraying him as a “monster” through “radioactive lies” that he had a criminal record, abused women and once shot a man in the leg.

Oct 23, 2025 2:23 PM CDT

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s bid to set aside $1.4 billion verdict

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones to set aside the historic $1.4 billion jury verdict against him for defaming families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass killing.

Oct 14, 2025 1:35 PM CDT

Judge tosses Drake’s suit over Kendrick Lamar’s rap song calling him ‘certified pedophile’

A reasonable listener would conclude that rapper Kendrick Lamar was “rapping hyperbolic vituperations” when he called rapper and singer Drake a “certified pedophile” in his 2024 song “Not Like Us,” a federal judge said last week in an order tossing Drake’s defamation lawsuit over the statement.

Oct 14, 2025 11:19 AM CDT

Lawyer’s defamation claim against attorneys who obtained sanctions is revived by 5th Circuit

A lawyer’s claim for defamation against two attorneys who obtained more than $330,000 in sanctions against him in a state-court racketeering suit isn’t barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Oct 13, 2025 2:54 PM CDT

Former associate who alleged sex assault by BigLaw partner is sued for defamation

Baker & McKenzie has sued a former associate for defamation in an updated lawsuit, alleging she made “unequivocally false” accusations on LinkedIn that she had been sexually assaulted by Maurice Bellan, the managing partner of the firm’s office in Washington, D.C.

Oct 2, 2025 2:52 PM CDT

Dominion and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani settle defamation lawsuit

Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company, and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani have settled the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the former New York mayor over spreading falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing Friday.

Sep 29, 2025 9:59 AM CDT

Why a federal judge quickly tossed Trump’s ‘florid and enervating’ suit against the New York Times

Lawyers for President Donald Trump will have to trim more than half the pages from their $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times after a federal judge quickly tossed the suit for violating a procedural rule requiring a short and plain statement of the facts.

Sep 22, 2025 10:35 AM CDT

Trump files defamation and libel lawsuit against New York Times

President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the New York Times and four of its reporters, accusing the newspaper of libeling him in several articles in the lead-up to last year’s presidential election.

Sep 16, 2025 11:16 AM CDT

Immunity doesn’t protect Trump from $83.3M defamation verdict over sexual assault denials, 2nd Circuit rules

A federal appeals court has affirmed an $83.3 million defamation verdict against President Donald Trump for denying writer E. Jean Carroll’s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.

Sep 9, 2025 9:19 AM CDT

Judge tosses fired associate’s suit alleging WilmerHale discriminated based on his Cameroonian origin

A fired associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr won’t be able to pursue his October 2023 lawsuit against the law firm and a former counsel who worked there.

Aug 7, 2025 2:47 PM CDT

Lawyers for MyPillow CEO sanctioned for fake case citations; judge questions their explanation

Updated: A federal judge has imposed a sanction of $3,000 each on two lawyers representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for submitting a brief citing cases that didn’t exist.

Jul 10, 2025 9:01 AM CDT

Federal judge’s defamation suit over alleged hacking inference tossed after he’s deemed public official

A federal judge in Miami has tossed dueling defamation claims stemming from a dispute over condo repairs in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that involve a New York federal judge.

Jul 3, 2025 10:11 AM CDT

These 4 conservative law firms are thriving under Trump

Jones Day played a prominent role in the first presidency of President Donald Trump. The law firm represented Trump in his first presidential campaign and sent several lawyers to work in the administration, including Don McGahn, who was the White House counsel. But Jones Day “hasn’t had the same prominence in Trump circles this time around,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Now, several smaller, conservative firms are seeing “boom times.”

Jun 26, 2025 1:31 PM CDT