Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Generally, defamation occurs when a false statement is made to a third party, the statement is presented as fact and the statement ...

In May 2023, writer E. Jean Carroll successfully sued Donald Trump when a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and ...

The teacher claimed the school board candidate, Sharon Benson, defamed her by accusing her of indoctrinating students.

CNN editors called the segment at the center of a high-stakes defamation lawsuit an "infernal story" that wasn’t ready for air, but the network aired it anyway, according to the plaintiff’s ...

U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young’s high-stakes defamation lawsuit against CNN continued to move forward on Wednesday when a judge heard multiple motions for summary judgment. Young alleges that ...

by definition the words are not defamatory in law.” He claimed that asking “Who did you sleep with to get that title?” was not actionable defamation because it cannot be attributed as ...

Gateway Pundit, the far-right conspiracy site, has settled a defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers who were falsely accused of rigging the 2020 results. Details of the settlement ...

The exonerated Central Park Five sued former President Trump for defamation Monday over his comments at the recent presidential debate about the group’s wrongful convictions for rape and assault.

Lawyers for the two election workers seeking to collect on a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudolph W. Giuliani found that he had largely cleared out his Upper East Side home. By Eileen ...

rally over the weekend sued the Riverside County sheriff for defamation and other claims, saying there were “preposterous allegations” made about the incident possibly being an assassination ...

ATLANTA — Two Georgia election workers have reached a settlement in their defamation lawsuit against a Missouri-based, far-right website that falsely accused them of fraud in the 2020 ...

A man arrested outside former President Donald Trump’s rally in California’s Coachella Valley on Saturday has sued the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and the sheriff himself for defamation.