A New York state judge on Wednesday threw out billionaire hedge fund manager Louis Bacon’s $100 million defamation lawsuit against Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard, saying the case tied to their long-running feud over neighboring properties in the Bahamas belongs …
A Georgia real estate agent is suing the producer of the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” claiming the comedian mispronounced her name to make a joke about breasts. Titi (TEE’-tee) Pierce alleges in the lawsuit filed against Warner Bros. last week …
A former West Virginia schools superintendent cannot sue the state Board of Education over its decision to fire her, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The court ruled in favor of the board, which appealed a circuit judge’s denial of …
An insurance company is asking a federal judge in Delaware to declare that it’s not obligated to defend the ex-wife of serial political candidate Richard Korn against his defamation lawsuit. Liberty Mutual argues in a complaint filed Monday that a …
A long-running defamation lawsuit against former Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens by his ex-trainer has been settled for an undisclosed amount of money to be paid by his insurer, attorneys said Wednesday after meeting with …
A former ING Financial Services trader sued the owners of Madison Square Garden for booting him from the arena last year after he yelled “Carmelo, you stink” during a New York Knicks game, a move he said cost him his …
The New York Post lost its bid to throw out a defamation lawsuit by two men whose photo and the headline “BAG MEN” appeared on the tabloid’s front page last year during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. Suffolk …
The Alabama state Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s decision to award an Iranian-born businessman $7.5 million in a 2011 defamation lawsuit. AL.com reported that the court issued a unanimous decision Dec. 6 upholding its judgment against Pensacola, Fla. car …
A Tulsa, Okla., insurance company has filed a defamation lawsuit against former board member and state Rep. Wayne Pettigrew. In the lawsuit, First Trinity Financial Corp. claimed that Pettigrew made false and defamatory statements about the company and its top …
The former CEO of Lake Chelan Community Hospital has won $350,000 in arbitration over a defamation lawsuit. The Wenatchee World reports an arbitration ruling has ended the legal battle over the hospital’s decision to fire David Bernier less than two …
