News of perhaps the largest defamation settlement in U.S. history came and went with a whimper last week. In two footnotes in its third-quarter earnings report, The Walt Disney Company whispered that it spent a cool $177 million—not including additional cash from insurers—“in connection with the settlement of…
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, appearing on ABC News this Sunday, was asked by network correspondent Jonathan Karl whether Donald Trump would ever do somethings as crazy as change national libel laws in order to curtail America’s free press.
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail settled two lawsuits from Melania Trump regarding an August article the British paper published that claimed that a modeling agency she once worked for in the ’90s was actually an escort service. The paper officially retracted and apologized for the story, and agreed to pay damages, though…
In 2014, Tamara Green and six other women filed a libel lawsuit against Bill Cosby in Massachusetts, after his attorney Marty Singer made some disparaging remarks about the many, many women who have come forward with rape accusations against the comedian. In October of last year, a judge rejected Singer’s motion to…
The Daily Mail is a publication that regularly produces stories. Some of these stories are fact, some of them are based in fact and some of them are not even close to fact. But when they've published stories in that last category, they have to apologize and they usually do so in a big way. Enter: J.K. Rowling's…
Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst filed a lawsuit last Thursday seeking $1 million in damages from the woman who accused him of raping her in the comments section on an xoJane article. Now a domestic violence advocacy is asking him to drop the suit, even if he's innocent.
When troubles arise in the world of Harry Potter, wizards cast charms. Rich celebrities, on the other hand, summon fleets of very well-paid lawyers. Hence J.K. Rowling has just sued the Daily Prophet Daily Mail for libel. Expelliarmus!
The hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of assault is suing the New York Post for claiming she's a prostitute. The paper's claims continue today.
Amanda Knox's parents have been living a nightmare since their daughter was accused of killing her roommate, and now they're facing legal troubles of their own. The Wall Street Journal reports that today an Italian judge indicted Curt Knox and Edda Mellas on a slander charge for telling the press that their daughter…
Celebrity midwife Cara Muhlhahn—made famous by Ricki Lake's documentary The Business Of Being Born—is suing New York magazine for $1 million for libel, we've learned. This comes as Muhlhahn fields her own malpractice lawsuit, after a stillborn birth.
Trolls are small, pudgy, genital-free humanesque figures that were a momentarily interesting phenomena. They were also cute little dolls when I was a kid. Some trolls, however are worse then others. As Wired reports, the trolls on AutoAdmit.com, a college-admissions discussion board, are wannabe lawyers with extremely…
