Defamation online
It’s our future. Instapundit rounds up developments, which Julie Hilden is all over. I’ve made my point on this topic — less a legal than... Read more
Tag: Defamation
More on blogger immunity for libel
Instapundit.com said it perfectly well, and he can afford the occasional wholesale lifting of an item, can’t he? MORE ON BLOGGER IMMUNITY FOR LIBEL in... Read more
I’m with Popehat
Do you like defamation cases? Cases involving blogging and social media? How about SLAPP motions in cases involving defamation and blogging and social media and... Read more
Goldman Sachs, those big losers!
Remember Mike Morgan, the flaky sort who dast challenge the mighty Men of Gold? Now it’s over, like just another paid-back multi-billion dollar loan,... Read more
Gavin McInnes v. SPLC
Although the SPLC Hate Designations are not empirical statements of fact, and are frequently entirely counter-factual, the SPLC Hate Designations are nonetheless intended by SPLC and treated by the mainstream press, law enforcement, courts and social media organizations not as SPLC’s opinion but rather as objective, empirical factual determinations Read more
Defamation and Bloggers, Once and For All
Question I seem to get every week: What’s with blogs and defamation? Coleman, are you pro? Con? Here’s [There was once] what appears[ed} to be a... Read more
“Consumer fraud”: The new online speech control law?
Get this: New Jersey prosecutors have subpoenaed records of JuicyCampus.com, a Web site that publishes anonymous, often malicious gossip about college students. Language on the... Read more
No recourse
James C. Goodale, the former vice chairman of The New York Times, in the New York Law Journal (registration required): Until the Internet came along,... Read more
Libel in the blogosphere
Glenn Reynolds wonders aloud whether the Maine blogger dustup (UPDATE: suit withdrawn!) will generate some interest in his new “libel in the blogosphere” article. Well,... Read more
Blogger lawsuit resolved
Just Another Pretty Farce indeed! By the way, download Glenn Reynolds’s article (we’ve linked to it before) on online defamation. It… it would mean a... Read more
Power Line to the DNC: Sue us
Power Line asserts the “actual malice” standard to defend itself against a threatened defamation suit against just about everyone from the Democratic National Committee. (Via... Read more
Who are you to say?
We all love loopholes. Concurring Opinions writes here about the Seinfeld defamation lawsuit, and asks: How broad, really, is the “opinion” loophole? Having read a... Read more