If you are mad as hell about a consumer experience you’ve had, you may want to exercise your right of free speech to express your dismay in a public forum – these days, by posting a negative review on a …
ABC News was hit with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit on Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed “pink slime” was unsafe. Beef Products Inc. …
Shasta County in Northern California has agreed to pay $855,600 to settle a lawsuit that accused former District Attorney Jerry Benito of defaming another county employee. The Redding Record-Searchlight reported the settlement ends a legal fight that began about seven years …
A shoe store clerk who was fired after inadvertently giving a receipt containing a racial slur to a black customer has the right to sue her former employer for defamation, a federal appeals court ruled. Friday’s decision by the 8th …
Former UCLA player Reeves Nelson is suing Sports Illustrated for $10 million, citing defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress over its recent article about problems in the school’s basketball program. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court …
Suspended New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has filed a defamation lawsuit against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The suit in U.S. District Court in New Orleans claims Goodell has made false statements about Vilma while discussing the NFL’s bounty investigation …
When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her there was not much they could do because the harassment occurred off campus. So the 14-year-old girl, Alex …
Bennie Dale Morris used to be a regular at Frank’s Place — eating meals and drinking coffee several times a day at the smoke-filled cafe — until the restaurant owner’s joking around got a little too personal. In fact, Morris …
Two Scottsdale, Ariz. doctors have been awarded $12 million from a former patient they accused of defaming them in online postings. The Maricopa County jury awarded the money this week to Dr. Albert Carlotti and his wife, Dr. Michelle Cabret-Carlotti. The …
A Brooklyn judge has tossed out a defamation lawsuit against New York Times Co. brought by Gorilla Coffee, a coffee shop that has become a fixture in the borough’s Park Slope neighborhood. The suit stemmed from an April 2010 Times …
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