Intentional infliction of emotional distress

A Nashville, Tenn., woman can pursue her defamation lawsuit stemming from a prison reality show that featured footage unknowingly taken of the woman while she visited her husband in prison, a federal judge ruled last week.

Newspaper reports about a rumor regarding a local city councilman’s personal relationship with a woman who received a “sweetheart deal” to perform a project for the city were not defamatory, an Alabama appellate court recently held.

A West Virginia daycare owner’s claims against a local television station that reported “serious allegations of abuse and neglect” at the facility, but omitted the fact that the single incident involved child-on-child contact, should have been decided by a jury, a federal appeals court recently held.

The U.S. Constitution protects angry, anti-gay protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a controversial case that pitted free-speech rights against the privacy of grieving family members.

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Monday that reports of crimes are not necessarily libelous just because the criminal records have been expunged. The court in G.D. v. Bernard Kenny and The Hudson County Democratic Organization, Inc. reversed a trial judge's holding that the use of expunged information could be libelous.

The U.S. Supreme Court explored the constitutional limits of offensive speech Wednesday during oral arguments regarding a highly-charged controversy that pits the privacy rights of a fallen Marine’s bereaved father against the First Amendment rights of anti-gay protestors to expound their message at military funerals.

The Supreme Court will decide whether a federal appeals court erred when it threw out a $5 million verdict for a father who sued religious protesters for picketing his son's funeral after he died in Iraq, the Associated Press reported.