An Illinois Circuit Court Judge threw out a defamation suit that had been brought by a realty-management company against a Chicago renter. The suit was based on comments that the renter had posted on Twitter.
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A North End reporter lost her appeal to the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to dismiss a defamation lawsuit made against her by a North End developer.
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A township supervisor said that he planned to file a defamation lawsuit against a recall organizer, a Flushing Township resident and former township supervisor.
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A woman sought to recoup $135,000, which her lawyer told jurors was her legal debt to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit. She faced the lawsuit after speaking out against a local teacher she thought was violating school sex offender policies.
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A controversial charter school in Inver Grove Heights accused of promoting religion with taxpayer money countersued the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A local blogger faced a lawsuit filed by Wicomico County Department of Corrections Director Douglas C. Devenyns.
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Techdirt writes about an Orlando police chief who threatened a blogger critical of her.
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A $5 million defamation lawsuit was filed by a Madison County Engineer accusing an unknown party of posting information on an Internet blog.
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A local landowner was sued by the Middle Snake Tamarac Rivers Watershed District, a local government entity, for expressing an opinion critical of the District's flood control plans.
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A lawyer for a Virginia resident suing a local newspaper for defamation served a subpoena on a blogger who publishes cvillenews.com, a community news blog about Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Intellect Art Media, Inc., a Massachusetts-based company that operates a college-level summer program called Swiss Finance Academy, sued Mathew Milewski, a student at Fordham University; Xcentric Ventures, LLC, operators of the website RipoffReport.com; and five anonymous posters for defamation.
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A state senator sued her rival in the U.S. Senate campaign, claiming a Republican senator defamed her with a campaign television commercial that implies the Democrat would support a “Godless” agenda.
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Plaintiffs filed a defamation lawsuit against some known defendants as well as some anonymous John Doe defendants in federal court over statements posted to Complaintsboard.com.
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A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued a ruling against a developer who sued a Christiansburg resident and blogger for complaining about a large mound of dirt on one of his properties.
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A Chesterfield, Virginia businessman sued seven county residents for $1.35 million in a defamation suit over their criticism of him involving a proposed sewer district.
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