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A Manila court convicted Philippines journalist, Maria Ressa, Monday on charges of cyber libel following her publication of an eight–year–old story tying businessman Wilfredo Keng to illicit drug and human trafficking activity. The court sentenced Ressa to a “minimum of six months and one day,” and a “maximum of six years” in prison, imposing fines [...]

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., the re-election committee for the sitting president, filed a libel suit against The Washington Post in federal court on Tuesday. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that the newspaper published two articles containing “false and defamatory statements” in June 2019. It [...]

Donald J Trump for President, Inc. filed suit against the New York Times for libel Wednesday. The suit is in response to an article published by the Times titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo” by Max Frankle. According to the complaint, the article claims that there was an “overreaching deal between the Putin Oligarchy [...]

Martin Luther King Jr. called Fred Gray the chief counsel of the Civil Rights movement. Gray was born in Alabama in 1930. Born and raised in the segregated South, he understood the full impact of segregation on black communities and experienced it personally. Gray attended a Christian boarding school in Nashville, Tennessee, because, at the [...]

Following the arrest of dozens of protesters during demonstrations on Kazakhstan’s Independence Day on Monday, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced Friday that the nation would begin moving toward liberalizing laws about rallies and the formation of political parties. Rallies without official approval are illegal in Kazakhstan, which prompted the arrests at Monday’s demonstrations in the capital [...]

The Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled Thursday that public school coaches are not public officials for the purposes of libel and defamation lawsuits. In 2014 Nathan McGuire was released from his position as basketball coach at Woodbury High School when the school decided not to renew his contract. A group of parents were concerned about [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the 2017 defamation claim brought by former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin against the New York Times (NYT) may proceed. This decision vacates the ruling by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, which dismissed the claim back in [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on Friday dismissed Nicholas Sandmann’s $250 million defamation complaint against the Washington Post, citing First Amendment protections. The case stems from a conflict that arose at a rally in Washington, DC. Sandmann was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat when his [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday called for the court to review its ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, a libel case that challenged freedom of press protections. Writing a concurrence to a denied petition for certiorari, Thomas argued that the current threshold for plaintiffs is “almost impossible” because: Under this Court’s [...]

Maria Ressa, Philippine journalist and known critic of the country’s president was arrested Wednesday on charges of cyber libel for her work as CEO and executive editor for Philippines-based news site Rappler, drawing criticism from rights groups. Rappler has been critical in its coverage of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose administration has alarmed human rights [...]