A 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.
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An 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.
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A 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.
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The 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.
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A 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.”
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An official sued a couple for libel.
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A 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.
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A 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.
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A South Kingstown political candidate dismissed his defamation lawsuit against a local activist who publicly criticized him during the election campaign.
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The Sonoran News, a small Cave Creek weekly newspaper was sued by former congressman Gary Condit for defamation.
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A Philadelphia court granted an injunction stopping a blogger from criticizing eye doctors.
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A coastal Maine blogger who criticized the state's tourism office was hit with a lawsuit seeking potentially more than $1 million in damages for allegedly making false statements and posting on his website, Maine Web Report, images from proposed tourism advertisements a New York agency prepared for Maine officials.
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The Humane Society sued a former employee/whistleblower for defamation seeking $250,000. The Atlanta Humane Society argued that the employee defamed them when she made statements to a television reporter that the Human Society made misleading claims and failed to engage in animal cruelty investigations.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court announced it decided to hear an appeal involving free speech and campaign-attack advertisements.
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After Cincinnati TV reporter Hagit Limor started investigating a chain of dental practices, the dentist sued her sources for libel.
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