90 ABA Journal Libel articles.
Ginsburg contracts stomach bug
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed oral arguments Wednesday because of an illness. A court spokeswoman said Ginsburg stayed home because of a stomach…
Nov 14, 2019 4:16 PM CST
Nov 11, 2019 3:47 PM CST
Judge tosses Arpaio defamation suit claiming ‘leftist enmity’ constituted actual malice
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of Washington, D.C., has tossed a defamation lawsuit filed by former Maricopa County, Arizona,…
Nov 6, 2019 4:32 PM CST
Oct 23, 2019 10:39 AM CDT
Judge boots Boies from defamation suit against Dershowitz
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska on Wednesday refused to toss a defamation suit filed against former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.…
Oct 17, 2019 4:12 PM CDT
Updated: The hacked Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and its two name partners have sued Netflix for libel over their portrayal in the film The Laundromat.
The lawsuit claims…
Oct 17, 2019 12:25 PM CDT
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Sep 9, 2019 3:55 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has ruled that a federal judge followed the wrong procedure when he dismissed a defamation suit filed against the New York Times by former vice…
Aug 7, 2019 11:05 AM CDT
A California appeals court has ruled against actor Bill Cosby’s bid to toss a defamation lawsuit by former model Janice Dickinson. The ruling comes just one day after Dickinson’s lawyer…
Jul 29, 2019 12:53 PM CDT
“People have no idea on how much stress this has had on our family and business for almost three years,” said David Gibson, the 64-year-old business co-owner, after the punitive verdict. “But from the beginning, we just didn’t understand why they were punishing us for something we had nothing to do with.”
Jun 17, 2019 6:30 AM CDT
A former partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed has filed a $10 million defamation suit against a Wall Street health club over an alleged false claim that the lawyer engaged…
May 28, 2019 7:30 AM CDT
An article in an ABA publication for judges didn’t defame a nonprofit group that certifies forensic document examiners, a federal appeals court has ruled.
In a May 1 opinion,…
May 3, 2019 2:21 PM CDT
A shoplifting incident at a bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, created a controversy for the community and led to a lawsuit against the college.
May 2, 2019 1:15 PM CDT
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