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Defamation
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Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s $15B Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times

The judge ruled that Trump’s 85-page lawsuit was overly long and full of “tedious and burdensome” language that had no bearing on the legal case.

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Judge Dismisses Indigenous Amazon Tribe’s Lawsuit Against The New York Times and TMZ

The lawsuit claimed the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography.

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Trump Files $15 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against The New York Times

The lawsuit names several articles and one book written by two of the publication’s journalists and published in the leadup to the 2024 election.

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Alex Jones Asks Supreme Court To Hear Appeal of $1.4 Billion Sandy Hook Judgment

Jones' lawyers say that public figures such as the Sandy Hook families have to prove their defamation claims against journalists such as Jones.

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Appeals Court Upholds E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 Million Defamation Judgment Against President Trump

That award followed a separate trial, in which Trump was found liable for sexually abusing Carroll and ordered to pay $5 million.

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Trump Plans To Ask Supreme Court To Toss E. Jean Carroll’s $5 Million Abuse and Defamation Verdict

Trump’s lawyers previewed the move as they asked the high court to extend its deadline for challenging the $5 million verdict from Sept. 10 to Nov. 11.

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Defamation Case Against Fox News Highlights Role of Its Hosts in Promoting 2020 Election Falsehoods

In short: Fox let Trump aides spread conspiracy theories despite knowing they were false because it was what their viewers wanted to hear.

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Conservative Network Newsmax Agrees To Pay $67M in Defamation Case Over Bogus 2020 Election Claims

Judge Eric Davis had ruled earlier that Newsmax did indeed defame Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems by airing false information about the company and its equipment.

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