Supreme Court Passes on Media Liability Protection Case as 2 Justices Balk July 5, 2021 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday turned away a case challenging libel protections for journalists and media organizations, but conservative...
Scale Underwriting Introduces Social Media Influencer Liability June 18, 2021 Scale Underwriting, a Founder Shield company that provides tailored insurance products for high-growth companies, has launched Scale Social, a media...
Attorney Dershowitz Files $80 Million Defamation Suit Against Netflix May 28, 2021 Attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is suing Netflix for $80 million over his portrayal in the streaming service’s...
UK Judge Rules Newspaper Violated Duchess Meghan’s Privacy in Publishing Letter February 16, 2021 By Jill Lawless LONDON — A newspaper invaded the Duchess of Sussex’s privacy by publishing personal letter to her estranged father, a British...
Republicans Eye ‘Jackhammer’ to Reform Tech Liability While Democrats Grab ‘Scalpel’ October 30, 2020 By Nandita Bose Big Tech’s decisions to block some posts and videos while letting other content viewed as inflammatory proliferate have drawn the...
Internet Companies Urge FCC to Reject Trump Rules on Social Media Liability September 3, 2020 By David Shepardson and Nandita Bose A group representing major internet companies including Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday urged the Federal...
Markel International Exits Personal Accident, Contingency Insurance on COVID-19 Impact June 18, 2020 Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer and division of Markel Corp., has announced its wholesale business will now focus solely...
Big Publishers Sue Digital ‘Emergency Library’ Offering Free Books During Coronavirus June 2, 2020 By Hillel Italie Four of the country’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has...
Harvard Professor Takes Aim at ‘Clickbait’ With Defamation Suit Against New York Times January 14, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson A Harvard University professor known as an expert in intellectual property is suing the New York Times for its publication...
Supreme Court Weighs Legal Standard in $20B Racial Bias Claim Against Comcast November 15, 2019 By Andrew Chung U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed sympathy toward allowing comedian and producer Byron Allen to pursue his racial bias...