Libel
No Defamation Liability for “Antagonistic Rants” Against Israeli Muslim Educational Institution, Including Claims It’s Agent of Israeli Government
From Judge Paul Maloney's decision Friday in Al Qassimi Academy v. Abuhaltam (W.D. Mich.): Al Qassimi Academy is an educational and religious institution serving the Muslim Arabic community in Israel. Abd Al-Raof…
IRS Agents Who Revealed Details About Hunter Biden Investigation Lose Libel Suit Against Biden’s Lawyer
An excerpt from the long decision in Shapley v. Lowell by Judge Richard Leon (D.D.C.) filed today:This case arises from the multi-year criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax compliance. Two of the Internal…
The “Wire Service Defense” Before Wire Services
American libel law has long recognized the "wire service defense"; to quote Layne v. Tribune Co. (Fla. 1933), The mere reiteration in a daily newspaper, of an actually false, but apparently authentic news dispatch,…
Judge Rejects Drake’s Defamation + Harassment Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Diss Track
A short excerpt from Judge Jeannete Vargas's long opinion in Graham v. UMG Recordings, Inc.; read the full opinion for more: This case arises from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre's history, the…
From Prison to Helping the FBI to an Apple TV Miniseries … to Google-Hallucinated Libel?
From the Complaint in Keene v. Google LLC, just removed yesterday to federal court (N.D. Ill.); Keene's memoir discloses that his work with the FBI happened while "he ended up on the wrong side of the law and was…
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