False Light

Baltimore Jury Returns Defense Verdict in Public Official Media Defamation Trial

A Baltimore jury returned a defense verdict at the end of a two-week, in-person trial against Sinclair Broadcast Group and its investigative reporter Chris Papst, in a media defamation and false light invasion of privacy case over a series of broadcast news reports.

Connecticut Court Upholds Fair Report Privilege and Anti-SLAPP Law

Two recent Connecticut Appellate Court decisions based on The Hartford Courant’s reporting on a local lawyer’s professional sanctions affirmed the strength of the fair report privilege as a defense to a defamation claim under Connecticut law and also represented the first appellate case decided under the state’s relatively new Anti-SLAPP law.

Sheriff Joe Turned Away By D.C. Federal Court

Seventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Defamation, False Light and Related Lanham Act Claims on Opinion Grounds War of Experts Best Resolved By Rebuttal, Not Defamation Suit

Tenth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment in Favor of Sports Illustrated and Its Reporters in False Light Suit

Court Cuts Off Johnson in His Attempt to Assert Libel Claim

No Defamation/False Light Claim Based on Hollywood Reporter’s Sony Hack Article

Pennsylvania Court Applies Fair Report Privilege to “Colorful” Report”

Third Circuit Reinstates Libel Suit vs Newspaper Over Stock Photo Illustration

Utah Court Overturns Multi-Million Dollar Verdicts Predicated on Allegedly Injurious Speech Between Business Rivals