Bakery Awarded $44 Million in Total Damages in Defamation Suit Against Oberlin College
A jury in Ohio awarded $33 million in punitive damages to a local bakery that had sued Oberlin College for libel and slander. The complaint filed in Ohio state court in November 2017, alleged that Oberlin was complicit in supporting and encouraging student protests against Gibson’s bakery following the arrests of three African American students. Oberlin students began protesting the store, passing out fliers calling the bakery “a racist establishment with a long account of racial profiling and discrimination.”
Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against Jeanine Pirro and Fox News
A New York State Supreme Court judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News and one of its hosts, Judge Jeanine Pirro, brought by civil rights activist DeRay McKesson who claimed that Pirro implied that he incited violence against a police officer.
The post is another essay in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence from a denial of certiorari in the case of McKee v. Cosby (2019). The previous post was by Lee Levine […]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Calls On the Court to Reconsider Landmark Libel Case
Calling for the reconsideration of the actual malice standard is a major attack on New York Times v. Sullivan.
Massachusetts Mayor Can Pursue Defamation Suit Against Local Paper, Judge Rules
A judge is allowing a defamation lawsuit brought by the mayor of Methuen, Massachusetts James Jajuga to go to trial against the publisher of a local monthly paper over comments made […]
Citing First Amendment Rights, Tesla Founder Musk Seeks To Dismiss Defamation Suit
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is asking a judge to dismiss a libel claim against him brought by a British diver involved in the international rescue mission of young boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, arguing that his Tweets calling the diver a "pedo" and "child rapist" were an opinion and could not be construed as facts.
Does RT=Defamatory Endorsement? MSNBC’s Joy Reid Sued For Defamation Over a Retweet
MSNBC host Joy Reid is being sued for defamation for using her substantial social media presence to publish an inaccurate account that took place at a city council meeting in […]
Ex-Sheriff Seeking $147.5 Million in Defamation Suit Against NY Times
Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed a lawsuit seeking $147.5 million in damages against The New York Times and a member of its editorial board over an column published by the […]