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The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a case where a Christian ministry sued the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over being labeled a hate group. The appellants in Coral Ridge Ministries v. SPLC  asked the court to review its 1964 decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which held that public figures [...]

A UK High Court judge ruled against Brexit activist Arron Banks Monday in his libel case against journalist Carole Cadwalladr. The case concerned a tweet and TED talk by Cadwalladr, an independent journalist with a popular podcast who has written for the Guardian and the Observer.  Mrs Justice Karen Steyn found that Cadwalladr’s TED talk [...]

On May 11, 2022, the Supreme Court of India (SC) passed a landmark order to put the sedition law in abeyance for the first time ever since India’s independence. This would suspend it until its re-examination or further notice. The SC order is extremely significant in light of the continuous misuse of section 124A of [...]

Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against the New York Times was dismissed Tuesday. Judge Jed Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Palin had failed to show actual malice in an inaccurate editorial dating back to 2017. While Palin is expected to appeal, the ruling temporarily puts an [...]

A New York state judge Friday upheld a ruling banning The New York Times from publishing documents related to Project Veritas. Judge Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court ordered the New York Times to turn in physical copies of documents in question and delete digital versions of the documents. Project Veritas is a [...]

Harper Collins settled a libel suit Wednesday with the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. The book “Putin’s People,” authored by Catherine Belton, was published in 2021 in paperback format. The book dealt with KGB’s influence in Russia in the context of Putin and his influence on the West. Abramovich filed a libel suit against HarperCollins Publishers [...]

The Warsaw Court of Appeal on Monday overturned the conviction of two noted historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, for libel. Grabowski and Engelking co-edited a two-volume, 1,600-page study published in 2018 titled “Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland .” In addition to documenting cases of Polish assistance to Jews who [...]

The US Supreme Court turned away a case challenging libel protections for journalists and the media enshrined in a landmark 1964 ruling on Friday. However, dissenting opinions from conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch questioned the rationale behind the continued use of these legal protections. The conservative Justices’ opinions signaled a recognition of the [...]

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump accusing CNN of libel. Trump’s complaint, filed in March, was prompted by CNN contributor Larry Noble’s June 2019 op-ed article in which he argued that former special counsel Robert Mueller should have charged Trump for soliciting help from Russia during his 2016 campaign. The [...]

Social media platforms function as marketplaces of ideas in which the democratic tenets of participation, liberty, and community-building are designed to thrive. The recent onslaught of objectively false information about the COVID-19 pandemic, election security concerns, and the reignited fervor of the Black Lives Matter movement, however, has awakened the public to ways in which [...]