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.
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.
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.
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.
Poetry is a great way to infuse a little humor into what can be a “tedious” lifestyle, New York City attorney Stevi Siber-Sanderowitz says. She is fascinated by the haiku, a streamlined form of poetry that originated in Japan.
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.
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.
Today, more personal injury software tools are available than ever before. Many of the newer tools include artificial intelligence features, while established platforms also build AI into their systems.
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.
Ten years ago, Cameron Michael Fathauer was 17 and showing his skateboarding tricks to a neighbor girl when he was hit by a man driving a Lexus and thrown 20 feet away into the grass. One of his shoes was found a week later, hanging from a tree branch.
Updated: Perkins Coie has fired a lawyer for a social media post criticizing conservative political activist Charlie Kirk after his shooting death Wednesday during an appearance at a college campus event in Utah.
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.
A majority of Americans have lost trust in the justice system and many are skeptical of corporations, according to a February 2025 survey of jury-eligible adults in 14 states by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
