A professor at Bemidji State University wrote a story saying some unflattering things about a local journalist, who didn’t take kindly to the allegations and brought a lawsuit alleging defamation and related torts against a number of defendants, including seeking $50 billion from Google.
Read MoreA media company filed a federal lawsuit against a NC woman for defamation, trade libel and “tortious interference with business relationship.
Read MoreA Louisiana preacher a gay rights organization and its executive director for defamation after the organization issued an online press release that said he had advocated the murder of gays in a speech he made.
Read MoreThe owners of five buildings in the Bronx failed to raise a triable issue of fact that tenant organizers interfered with their ability to get mortgages, a state judge ruled in granting summary judgment dismissing the owners' case.
Read MoreA libel suit against an Indiana TV station was revived after a docket mishap surfaced, leading the judge to decide he'd acted too quickly to dismiss the case.
Read MoreAn attorney with a controversial history of suing public officials and private citizens forced this Emmet County township to spend $388,000 to defend itself against multiple lawsuits he’s filed on behalf of a local developer with downstate roots.
Read MoreA judge in Atlanta rejected Wal-Mart's claims that a man’s website and satirical products violated the company's trademark. In an 87-page order, the judge said the products qualified as protected noncommercial speech because his goal was to criticize Wal-Mart, not to make a profit from his products.
Read MoreThe Ecology Center settled a lawsuit filed by a pharmaceutical company that sought more than $9 million from the Ann Arbor-based nonprofit because of its participation in an aggressive campaign to restrict use of a chemical believed to be harmful to people and the environment.
Read MoreA developer filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against a Miami real estate agent who blogged that the developer “had gone bankrupt in the 1980s and was headed for a fall with the upheaval in the condo market.”
Read MoreAn official sued a couple for libel.
Read MoreA real estate development company delivered a stern warning to a resident: Take down his two-week-old website, www.verandaparknews.com or it would sue.
Read MoreA woman wrote e-mails and posted comments on the Internet expressing her dissatisfaction with the treatment her disabled son was receiving at his care facility. When the care facility demanded that she apologize for and retract her comments, she refused. The care facility sued her for libel, but she claimed that the lawsuit was intended to silence her and asked the court to dismiss the case under the anti-SLAPP statute.
Read MoreA South Kingstown political candidate dismissed his defamation lawsuit against a local activist who publicly criticized him during the election campaign.
Read MoreThe Sonoran News, a small Cave Creek weekly newspaper was sued by former congressman Gary Condit for defamation.
Read MoreA Philadelphia court granted an injunction stopping a blogger from criticizing eye doctors.
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