With these basics in place, leaders turn defamation preparedness into a repeatable practice rather than a crisis scramble.

Suing for defamation can result in a large recovery. Unfortunately, the suing plaintiff is taxed on the amount she keeps and also on the amount paid to her lawyer. Defamation verdicts and settlements ...

In the early years of our country, public men who felt maligned could end up killing over it. The duel that resulted in Alexander Hamilton’s death was prompted by a letter, in the Albany Register, by ...

CNN faces another defamation lawsuit after a federal appeals court revived a 2021 complaint that the cable news network may have defamed Project Veritas with "actual malice." The 11th US Circuit Court ...

Michael J. Gottlieb is part of a cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, against a tide of political disinformation. “I’ve always despised bullies that pick on ...

As the NFL was figuring out what to do about Steelers receiver DK Metcalf and his decision to approach the stands and ...

Outside legal observers say the Fox News Channel finds itself in real legal jeopardy in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by an election tech company over lies broadcast about the 2020 ...

Earlier this year, we got a look at something unusual: the results of an internal investigation conducted by Harvard Business School that concluded one of its star faculty members had committed ...

The pro-Trump cable outlet Newsmax and voting technology company Smartmatic settled a major defamation lawsuit Thursday in a last-minute agreement, averting a high-stakes trial over the airing of ...

At first, Pamela Lopez did not intend to name names. After more than a decade as a lobbyist in Sacramento, California, representing school districts, Native American tribes, and cannabis companies, ...