defamation

Geoffrey Rush Wanted To Settle For $50K And Apology in Defamation Case

Actor Geoffrey Rush will receive A$2.9 million ($2 million) from the Daily Telegraph after he won his defamation case against the Sydney newspaper but he would have accepted just A$50,000 ...

May 23, 2019BY AAP
Rep. Nunes Sues News Publisher McClatchy for $150 Million, Alleges ‘Smear Campaign’

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) filed a lawsuit against newspaper publisher The McClatchy Co. and political operative Liz Mair, ...

April 9, 2019BY Petr Svab
Former Senate Candidate Sues GOP, Media for Defamation

A former coal executive is suing a slew of media outlets and an arm of the Republican Party ...

March 17, 2019BY Matthew Vadum
After CNN, Lawsuits May Hit NBC, HBO, AP, Says Covington Student’s Lawyer

Legacy media NBC, HBO, and The Associated Press may be next in line to be sued for their ...

March 14, 2019BY Petr Svab
Stormy Daniels Ordered to Pay President Trump $293K in Legal Fees

Pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels must pay President Donald Trump nearly $293,000 for his legal fees and another ...

December 11, 2018BY Mimi Nguyen Ly
Venezuela Amps Up Media Repression by Sentencing Newspaper Publisher to Prison

A court in Venezuela’s mineral-rich state of Bolívar has sentenced David Natera, the 74-year-old publisher of one of ...

April 2, 2016BY Lance Lattig and Marco Aponte-Moreno