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A federal jury in Hawaii ruled in favor of The Surfer's Journal last week in a libel lawsuit that had been brought by a surfboard shaper, according to the Pacific Business News.
Without a dime exchanged between them, The New York Times and lobbyist Vicki Iseman have settled her libel lawsuit over an article she claimed falsely accused her of having an affair with Sen. John McCain.
As foreign athletes, sports fans and hordes of journalists look toward home with the closing of the Olympics this weekend, free-press advocates are assessing how reporters have fared in and around Beijing.
A Wayne County judge ruled Thursday that the embattled Detroit mayor and his ex-chief of staff can't force reporters to reveal how they obtained the former couple's flirtatious text messages.
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.
The Journal News in New York's Lower Hudson Valley is expecting a judge to order it to identify three anonymous online posters who an ex-congressman and his wife believe slandered them on the newspaper's website.
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.
A District Court judge in Maine on Friday dismissed a school superintendent's slander suit against Fox News, finding no proof the station acted with actual malice when it reported a spoof of the superintendent's letter to students as true.
The National Archives announced Monday that it plans to release all of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s schedules from her time in the White House later this month but is asking that the judge delay the release of her telephone logs for at least one to two years.
As the election season has progressed, Clinton has been increasingly criticized for not releasing the documents sooner.
Defiant and refusing to step down, embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick continues to assert that records showing public funds financed an $8.4 million settlement between the city and terminated police officers are not public records. The deal included a confidentiality agreement forbidding the three officers from discussing text messages exchanged between Kilpatrick and former chief of staff and alleged paramour Christ
