#defamation

#defamation

MacInnes claims Wilson defamed her in a series of social media posts that suggested she is a liar and a sellout who walked back a sexual misconduct complaint to further her career. The posts claimed MacInnes confided to the older actor and later recanted she felt uncomfortable when the film's co-producer Amanda Ghost asked to have a shower and a bath together. MacInnes denies making or retracting a complaint, insisting she was not uncomfortable when the pair shared a bath in their swimwear after Ghost suffered a medical episode in September 2023.

By agreeing to this settlement, and waiving their right to appeal, Justin Baldoni and every individual defendant now face personal liability for abusing the legal system to silence and intimidate Ms. Lively. And by admitting that Ms. Lively's concerns deserved to be heard, the defendants have ended once and for all the fiction that Ms. Lively fabricated claims of sexual harassment and retaliation.

Ashley MacIsaac is suing Google for $500,000 in general damages, $500,000 in aggravated damages, and $500,000 in punitive damages due to false claims made by an AI-generated summary.

Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, has dropped its defamation claim against the Guardian and two other defendants regarding a report on federal investigations into $8 million in payments.

Sentebale has commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of England and Wales, seeking the court's intervention, protection and restitution following a coordinated adverse media campaign conducted since 25 March 2025.

Sentebale has begun legal proceedings after a coordinated adverse media campaign conducted since 25 March 2025 that has caused operational disruption and reputational harm to the charity, its leadership, and its strategic partners.

The deputies' defamation claims failed under the 'actual malice' standard, which requires proof that the statements were made with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard for the truth.

The court found that her allegations of sexual harassment of a physical nature had not been proved to be true or shown to be made for the public good, and therefore constituted actionable defamation.

Innocent men don't pay. They go to trial, Youssef said, leading to Dershowitz accusing him of defamation. Dershowitz was the subject of a defamation lawsuit from the late Virginia Giuffre, one of the victims of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit was dropped in 2022, with Giuffre admitting she may have made a mistake in identifying Dershowitz as an abuser.

A lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court, Nassau County is drawing attention to an often-overlooked question: how far can a summer camp go when disciplining a child accused of misconduct? The case stems from events at a Pennsylvania-based summer camp in Equinunk, where a minor camper was accused of violating camp policy after a vaping device was discovered in a shared bunk area.

In 2019, Carroll alleged that Trump had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s; Trump promptly denied the allegation while deriding Carroll at rallies and in TV interviews as "totally lying" and "not my type." Ask E. Jean follows Carroll as she prepares for the trial, revealing why she buried what had happened for so long; it captures, too, her profound discomfort while she's badgered during depositions by Trump's legal team, and her eventual victory.

A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama awarded the Drummond Co., a coal company based in Birmingham, Alabama, $26 million in compensatory and $26 million in punitive damages against attorney Terrence Collingsworth on the defamation claims and $68 million on the claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, according to the story.

After Donlon filed the suit, Sheppard said during a live television appearance that Donlon was showing many signs of cognitive issues and that the FBI had seized Donlon's phones. And at a closed-door meeting with civic leaders, Adams said Donlon had recently refused to take part in a mental health check-up, according to court filings. The falsity of Defendants' statements is not a close question.

A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of online harassment of the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, by posting or reposting malicious comments on social media that claimed falsely that she was a man. Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, including a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist, were on Monday given sentences ranging from a compulsory course in understanding online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison sentence.