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Showing posts with label Sullivan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sullivan. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Law students test-screen 'actual malice' documentary

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Yesterday, my students in Comparative Law and in Torts got to be test-screen audiences for  American Libel , a new documentary written and p...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Greenberg: 'Why American Libel Law Is a Disaster'

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My friend and colleague Dan Greenberg , a senior research fellow at the Cato Institute , has penned an editorial in which he explains "...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Court's pass on Wynn bid to revisit 'actual malice' makes sense, but standard still fuels misinformation

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Wynn operates the Encore Casino in Everett, Mass., since a dust-up with authorities over ownership. Holiday Point via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Dominion v. Fox News evidences 'actual malice,' also shows how standard has fueled misinformation

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(UPDATE, April 18, at 5:17 p.m.: NBC News reported a half hour ago that Dominion and Fox News reached a $787.5m settlement.) CBS Sunday Mor...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Media want anti-SLAPP security while ignoring real harm, and nobody wants to talk about tort dysfunction

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Christian Dorn from Pixabay On April 7, one of my favorite podcasts, WNYC's On The Media (OTM), ran a story , not its first , on anti-...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

'Seminal' South African defamation case instructs on limited remedial reach of American speech torts

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A politician prevailed in defamation against a critic who accused him of nepotism in a South African Supreme Court of Appeal case that a me...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Court greats both cautioned us on NYT v. Sullivan

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I'm indebted to Trump Litigation Seminar student Kevin Burchill, who timely unearthed this interview with the late Justices Ruth Bader ...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Anti-SLAPP slaps justice, but Richard Simmons survives dismissal in privacy suit over tracking device

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Sensational Simmons in 2011 ( Angela George CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Updated Oct. 17, 2023, to correct broken links. In telephone consultation ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Let's 'open up our libel laws': I'm with Thomas

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There's been a blustering rash of hand-wringing in journalism and First Amendment circles over the recent concurrence to cert. denial b...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Neil Gorsuch, Benedict Arnold, and the Star Chamber: A media law note

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Looking over Judge Gorsuch’s opinions, I was reminded of his role in a media law case of recent note.   Judge Gorsuch in 2011 wrote the...