Jake Wunsch
The claim stemmed from an article that VICE published on April 11, 2020 titled Trump Blacklisted This Chinese Company. Now It’s Making Coronavirus Masks for U.S. Hospitals.
Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Chinese Company’s Defamation Suit Against VICE
The claim stemmed from an article that VICE published on April 11, 2020 titled Trump Blacklisted This Chinese Company. Now It’s Making Coronavirus Masks for U.S. Hospitals.
In Praise of the Neutral Report Privilege
For some inexplicable reason, the privilege has not been accepted by most courts.
Ten Questions to a Media Lawyer: Adolfo E. Jimenez
Holland & Knight partner on career choices, important cases, and karaoke picks.
Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Defamation Suit Against Researcher
The decision reaffirms the overriding importance of context under New York defamation law, particularly for statements made amid ongoing public controversies.
Ninth Circuit Affirms Ruling That Twitter’s Lawsuit Over Alleged Retaliation By Texas AG Is Unripe
The Ninth Circuit ruled that a lawsuit filed by Twitter, alleging that it was the target of retaliation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in violation of its First Amendment rights, was not “prudentially ripe.”
Afterword
It is very difficult to accept the notion that a decision reached by a unanimous Court in 1964, and then reaffirmed by an eight-justice majority a quarter century later, could somehow have been rendered illegitimate barely two decades after that.
Chapter 5: English Libel Law and the SPEECH Act: A Comparative Perspective
The modest purpose of this overview is to shed light on an overseas branch of our “legal family tree”—and perhaps glimpse at what our branch could suffer were we to abandon Sullivan.
Chapter 4: The Reality of Contemporary Libel Litigation
Decades of experience applying the Sullivan standard demonstrates the substantial value it brings to contemporary libel cases brought by public officials and public figures, and the importance of maintaining this protection.
Chapter 3: The Empirical Reality of Contemporary Libel Litigation
It is the aim of this Chapter to quantify empirically what happens in defamation cases against the news media in a broader and more complete context than the Media Law Resource Center has undertaken in the past and to dispel some misconceptions about what conclusions can be drawn from our previously published trial data.
Chapter 2: A Response to Justice Gorsuch
In his dissent in Berisha, Justice Gorsuch calls for reconsideration of a cornerstone of American constitutional law. Despite the absence of credible evidence that New York Times Co. v. Sullivan’s strong protections have degraded journalism, he raises a purported historical question: Does Sullivan’s rationale no longer hold because the media landscape that existed in 1964…