Defamation

The Wall Street Journal Asia was held in contempt of court and fined about $16,000 by the high court in…

A New Jersey appellate court ruled last week that journalists can be subject to libel lawsuits for reporting the contents…

JuicyCampus.com founder Matt Ivester, whose site has been criticized as profiting from invasion of college students’ privacy and tarnishing their…

A Washington Post article has become caught in the middle of a wrongful termination lawsuit between American University and a…

A reporter who used a confidential source to report about a grand jury proceeding can keep her source’s identity a…

 A Pennsylvania newspaper has been ordered by a state court of appeals to pay $3.5 million, affirming a lower court’s…

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…

A group of anonymous commenters on a Montana newspaper Web site can stay that way thanks to a Montana District…

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has lost a bid to quash a subpoena to provide a deposition in real estate mogul…

A New Hampshire man's defamation suit against a local newspaper that in 1999 quoted police linking him to "more than 1,000 crimes"…