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Fair Game: Court Rules That BuzzFeed’s Publication Of Trump Dossier Is Protected By The Fair Report Privilege
USA - December 26 2018 Shortly after publishing the now-infamous Steele dossier about President Trump’s alleged connections with Russia, BuzzFeed was sued for defamation by…
No Actual Malice In The Wolf Of Wall Street Lawsuit: Judge Tosses Defamation Claim Brought By Former Stratton Oakmont Executive
USA - December 19 2018 Less than three months after Paramount Pictures released the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street in December 2013, former Stratton Oakmont attorney and…
An Update To Our Prior Post: The Eleventh Circuit Rules That Georgia’s Anti-SLAPP Does Not Apply In Federal Court. Supreme Court, Here We Come?
USA - December 17 2018 Last year, we posted that a Georgia federal court held, in a lawsuit against CNN, that Georgia’s anti-SLAPP statute had no application in federal…
Trump Awarded Nearly $300,000 In Attorney’s Fees And Costs Following His Successful Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Stormy Daniels
USA - December 12 2018 We previously posted about President Donald Trump’s successful use of the First Amendment in bringing an anti-SLAPP against Stormy Daniels based on…
2 Milly Sues Epic Games Over Fortnite Dance Moves - What In The Wide, Wide World Of Copyright Is Going On Here?
USA - December 6 2018 On Wednesday, rapper 2 Milly sued Epic Games, the creators of the wildly popular online game Fortnite Battle Royale, asserting two counts of copyright…
Let’s Be Clear: The TRO In Jay-Z’s “Roc Nation” Dispute Did Little More Than Delay Things By A Couple Of Weeks
USA - December 5 2018 News outlets recently rushed to share the story that lawyers for Jay-Z had successfully halted an arbitration in his “Roc Nation” trademark dispute…
The Results Are In: First Amendment Soundly Defeats Claims Regarding Allegedly Defamatory Campaign Advertisements
USA - November 13 2018 On November 6, 2018, Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Courtney Goodson was elected to remain in her position with the Arkansas Supreme Court…
Indiana Supreme Court Finds Fantasy Sports Statistics Newsworthy In Right of Publicity Claim
USA - November 11 2018 Plaintiff-Appellants Akeem Daniels, Cameron Stingily, and Nicholas Stoner were collegiate student-athletes between 2014¬2016. Their on-field…
Trump Uses First Amendment To Avoid Liability In Defamation Action
USA - October 24 2018 October 15, 2018 - Blanketing Himself In First Amendment Protections, Trump Wins Dismissal of Stormy Daniels’ Defamation Suit October 16, 2018 -…
Los Angeles Superior Court Quashes Subpoena to CBS under California’s Press Shield Law
USA - July 27 2018 Austin Harrouff faces two counts of first degree murder in Florida for the fatal stabbings of John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon on August 15, 2016…
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