Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that injures their reputation. Legal protections for a person’s reputation go back to common law and were well developed over the ...

High-profile Los Angeles County prosecutor John Lewin has won dismissal of defamation and emotional distress claims filed against him by one of a pair of prosecutors who allege they were wrongfully ...

Editor’s note: The following story deals with the topic of sexual assault. Victoria Burke remembers waking up in the hospital in December 2019, unsure of how she got there. The last memory she had was ...

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Western Australia Senator Linda Reynolds is already embroiled in a bruising defamation fight against her former staffer Brittany Higgins. Now, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is reportedly considering ...

A state Senate panel on Wednesday gave initial approval to a proposal that would change the state's defamation laws, with critics of the measure calling it unconstitutional, vague and ...

CNN faces another defamation lawsuit after a federal appeals court revived a 2021 complaint that the cable news network may have defamed Project Veritas with "actual malice." The 11th US Circuit Court ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs lost his high-profile case over a Peacock documentary, with a judge finding he failed to prove ...