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Showing posts with label libel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libel. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Mass., EU courts wrestle with requisite harm in defamation, data protection cases

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The vexing problem of proof of damages in defamation and privacy has turned up recently in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Court ...
Monday, February 8, 2021

UK court: Long arm of GDPR can't reach California*

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Image my composite of Atlantic Ocean by Tentotwo CC BY-SA 3.0 and "hand reach" from Pixabay by ArtsyBee , licensed *[UPDATE, ...
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...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Court: Pseudonymous WeChat user cannot be libeled

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As matter of law, statement is not 'of and concerning' plaintiff Statements about a person on a social media platform are not defama...
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 ...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Immunity shields tweeting legislators from libel suits, Elizabeth Warren from high school plaintiffs

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High schoolers from Kentucky will not get their day in court against Elizabeth Warren. The students' lawsuit, high profile in the politi...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Libel suit must follow first online post in less than three years, Mass. court rules, applying U.S. norm

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court today opined that the "single publication rule" of American libel law causes the statute of limita...
Monday, May 20, 2019

The summer beach read you've been looking for:
Don Herzog on 'Defaming the Dead'

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Looking for the perfect gift for that tort lover in your family?   The perfect read for the beach this summer?   Look no farther.   Pi...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Roundup and other stories: Monsanto, Sandy Hook, Aaron Hernandez, Monica Lewinsky, Summer Zervos, and One Montana Statute

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A number of stories have broken in the last couple weeks that, ordinarily, I would like to write about on this blog.  I've been travelin...