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An online sports hoax bashing the Oklahoma Sooners has Nebraska football fan James W. Conradt in hot water with the publisher of the state’s largest newspaper and one of its sportswriters, according to The Associated Press.
A federal judge has dismissed former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's defamation lawsuit against Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, who commented on CNN that he thought Condit knew more about a murdered D.C. intern than he had revealed.
A former television reporter is suing the Chicago-based CBS station that surreptitiously taped her last summer wearing a swimsuit, and not evidently reporting news, at the backyard pool of a man whose wife was missing.
Media commentators can freely express honest opinions without the looming fear of a defamation suit, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Friday.
A former Philadelphia news anchor is suing the local CBS affiliate there for defamation, enumerating several disgraces she claims were foisted on her in the name of publicity.
Alycia Lane's lawsuit alleges that an on-air report after KYW-TV fired her has sunk her career:
A Wisconsin lawyer who lost his 2002 bid for attorney general amid ethics concerns is also now out of luck in his related libel suit against a local newspaper.
Late last week, a California state appeals court denied the discovery motion of Ampersand Press, the corporate owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, clearing the way for a trial court to dismiss its libel claim against American Journalism Review writer Susan Paterno.
A federal judge has dismissed a defamation suit filed against an Indianapolis TV station for an in-depth report on Internet pharmacies, including a Canadian pharmacy-benefits company, CanaRX Services, Inc., which filed the action.
In the latest development in the five-year-long battle between the Boston Herald and Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy, the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct on Tuesday issued a 24-page report recommending a suspension and fine for the judge who won a libel suit against the paper in 2005, the Boston Globereports.
