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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to pay The Economist roughly $35,000 after an Italian court rejected his libel lawsuit, the magazine reported Friday.
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has lost a bid to quash a subpoena to provide a deposition in real estate mogul Donald Trump's defamation suit against a reporter who wrote that Trump's net worth is only in the millions.
A New Hampshire man's defamation suit against a local newspaper that in 1999 quoted police linking him to "more than 1,000 crimes" was dismissed late last month, with the court finding the officers' statements fell under a qualified privilege -- and so did The (Nashua) Telegraph in publishing them.
It was news enough earlier this month when two Yale law students publicly outed an anonymous message board writer they say defamed them online with a slew of sexual attacks. Now comes a report that the man they're suing -- Matthew C. Ryan -- has the same name as one unlucky Texas lawyer.
A Las Vegas Realtor is suing USA Today for libel, saying a June 3 article about mortgage fraud tarnished her reputation and sank her career.
"I had lots of clients," Erin Schlumpf told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Now I can't even get a client. Nobody will list with me or sell. I can't even hang my license anywhere. I'm pretty much wiped out."
A former Air America radio host was exercising her First Amendment rights when she assailed military contractor CACI International on the air, saying it was behind the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, an appeals court has ruled.
A Salisbury, Md. police chief settled his defamation suit against a blogger there this week, reportedly on "non-monetary" terms.
Salisbury Chief Allan Webster's case was due to go to trial Wednesday when blogger Joe Albero announced on his Web site, sbynews.blogspot.com, that the matter had been resolved. Albero did not disclose the terms.
