Conservatives have long had their sights set on revisiting a Supreme Court case that set a high bar for public officials to ...

Sarah Palin’s long-running defamation case against the New York Times is due back in court next week amid a landscape where ...

A federal judge granted summary judgment for state Superintendent Ryan Walters in a defamation suit filed by a former Norman Public Schools teacher.

Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis concluded Dominion is entitled to summary judgment on the issue of falsity of the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a bid by casino mogul Steve Wynn to roll back defamation protections established ...

"If the Constitution does not require public figures to satisfy an actual-malice standard in state-law defamation suits, then neither should we." ...

Sullivan ruling and subsequent decisions set a standard that in order to win a libel suit, a public figure must demonstrate the offending statement was made with "actual malice," meaning with ...

“The law prohibits weaponizing defamation lawsuits ... We will continue to hold Ms. Lively accountable for her actions of pure malice which include falsely accusing my clients of harassment ...

They added, “California law now expressly prohibits suing victims ... Also at issue: whether Baldoni sufficiently alleges actual malice, which requires a showing that the allegedly libelous ...

The opinion follows existing First Amendment law, but also illustrates one interesting ... of mere negligence by the defendants, not "actual malice"). But once she entered into the public debate ...