Credit: Getty Images. This month’s Legal Advisor reviews a claim for defamation brought by a DNP against a physician. This case shows a lack of basic respect that health care practitioners should have ...

Nunes and his family's farm can't sufficiently show damages, so the court doesn't have to reach any of the other elements of defamation. From Nunes v. Lizza, decided yesterday by Eighth Circuit Chief ...

Defamation cases are hard ones in the real world. Nona Gaprindashvili sued Netflix in September 2021 for “false light invasion of privacy” and defamation after a line in the hit series stated that she ...

Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that injures their reputation. Legal protections for a person’s reputation go back to common law and were well developed over the ...

In 2019, my son, Gidado Shuaib—News Digest publisher and host of the annual Campus Journalism Awards (CJA)—found himself enmeshed in a defamation case that stemmed from a report he and award-winning ...