Sarah Palin’s Defamation Trial Against New York Times Scheduled to Start January 24, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel and Helen Coster Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has spent 4-1/2 years battling the New York...
Judge Rules Dominion Defamation Suit Against Fox News Can Move Forward December 17, 2021 By Erik Larson Fox News probably had enough information after the 2020 presidential election to know a conspiracy theory claiming Dominion Voting Systems...
Judge Dismisses Alabama Candidate Moore’s $95M Suit Against Comedian, Showtime July 14, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday won the dismissal of a $95 million defamation lawsuit by Roy Moore, a...
Voting System Firm Files $1.3B Defamation Lawsuit Against Pro-Trump Lawyer Powell January 11, 2021 Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday, seeking at least $1.3 billion for Powell’s...
Jerry Falwell Jr. Files Suit Against Liberty University Claiming Reputational Damage October 30, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield The former president and chancellor of Liberty University (LU), Jerry Falwell Jr., is suing the school for reputational damage following...
Netflix Sued by Former Prosecutor Over Portrayal in ‘Central Park Five’ Miniseries March 19, 2020 By Helen Coster and Jessica DiNapoli A former prosecutor who ran the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in 1989 sued Netflix on...
Ohio Doctor Charged in 25 Patient Deaths Sues Hospital for Defamation December 30, 2019 An Ohio doctor accused of ordering drug overdoses in the deaths of 25 hospital patients has sued his former employer...
Trip Advisor Review of Missouri Tourist Attraction Not Defamatory, Judge Says September 6, 2019 A federal judge has ruled that a Kansas cattle farmer did not defame a Branson, Missouri, attraction by leaving a...
Rolling Stone Slams Defamation Claim in University of Virginia Rape Story November 20, 2017 By Denise Lavoie Rolling Stone is defending itself against a defamation lawsuit over a discredited article about a University of Virginia gang rape...
Defamation Suit Over Rolling Stone Article Is Revived on Appeal September 21, 2017 By Bob Van Voris A defamation lawsuit suit against Rolling Stone magazine over its retracted 2014 article about an alleged gang rape at the...