Finance Firm Says SEC Is Slander Happy, So It’s Suing.
Arjent LLC, a boutique finance firm with domestic and international outposts, sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for harassment, slander,...
Former RAF Expert Wins Defamation Suit Against The Mail on Sunday
A former Royal Air Force expert won a defamation lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday. Dr. Joel Howard, a defense...
International Defamation: Criminal Defamation In Ecuador
An international defamation lawsuit out of Ecuador caught our attention. In brief, the three-term (and counting) president of the country,...
Privilege: An Effective Defamation Defense
One way to win a defamation lawsuit is to successfully argue privilege. In the simplest terms, privilege is when one...
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress v. Defamation
Thanks to the Internet, defamation is on the rise — for communicate ease also means an increase in knee-jerk lie-telling...
Judge Says Anti-SLAPP A-OK For Federal Courts
Last week, a federal U.S. judge tossed the defamation lawsuit of a Palestinian politician’s son. Why is the case worth...
Nuclear Defamation Fracas Going Down In Japan
A now defunct Fukushima-Daiichi plant is at the heart of a nuclear defamation lawsuit between Japan’s former Prime Minister, Naoto Kan,...
Jesse Ventura and Leslie Davis: Round 4,815,162,342
Some defamation lawsuits are laugh-inducing; others fall into the “on-a-very-special-episode” category. And then there are the libel lawsuits that make...
Internet Defamation Case: Brian Burke v. Bloggers
The NHL playoffs are underway – and so is an Internet defamation legal battle initiated by notorious NHL GM, Brian...
Can I Be Sued For Libel If I Don’t Use the Person’s Name? Yes!
“Can I be sued for libel if I don’t use the person’s name?” Sure, it’s tough to win U.S. defamation...