Tag Archives: Defamation

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Live updates: Dominion v. Fox News defamation trial begins  Yahoo News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Adelaide woman wins second defamation case against Google over search results  ABC News Source link

SYDNEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Australia’s highest court overturned on Wednesday a ruling that had found Google engaged in defamation by supplying a link to a contested newspaper article, throwing the spotlight again on how online libel cases are handled in the country. The seven-judge panel of the High Court of Australia voted 5-2 to throw out an earlier finding that the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit played a part in publishing the disputed article by acting as a “library” housing it, saying the… Source link

Australia’s highest court has ruled Google is not a publisher of the websites it links to in search results, finding search engine hyperlinks do not amount to publication. A majority of high court justices on Wednesday found Google was not the publisher of a defamatory article by the Age about a Victorian lawyer, as it was a search engine that only provided hyperlinks to such content. “In reality, a hyperlink is merely a tool which enables a person to navigate to another webpage,” a… Source link

Patrick Reed filed a lawsuit against the Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamblee on Tuesday, claiming that the two “conspired” with the PGA Tour to defame him. Reed, who filed his suit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, is seeking more than $750 million in damages. He is being represented by Larry Klayman, a controversial former prosecutor who has filed a number of notable failed lawsuits in the past. Reed won nine times on the PGA Tour in his career, including at The Masters in… Source link

Australian courts may not be able to enforce an order that Google pay John Barilaro more than $700,000 in defamation damages because of free speech protections in US law, legal academics say. Google, the owner of YouTube, was on Monday ordered to pay the former New South Wales deputy premier aggravated damages over a series of defamatory “racist” and “abusive” videos published on the YouTube channel Friendlyjordies. Federal court justice Stephen Rares ruled that Barilaro had been left… Source link

Amber Heard.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images A jury largely sided with Johnny Depp in his defamation trial with Amber Heard on Wednesday. Experts told Insider that Heard lost because she wasn’t believable on the stand, and isn’t as big a star. “The jurors loved him, the public loved him, everyone on social media loved him.” Amber Heard lost her defamation case with Johnny Depp because she didn’t come off as credible, and lacks her ex-husband’s star power, experts told Insider hours… Source link

Verizon has defeated a lawsuit brought by former Trump administration advisor Carter Page, who alleged he was defamed in 11 online articles — one that appeared in Yahoo and 10 in the Huffington Post. In a 19-page opinion issued late last week, Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said Page … Source link