Jake Wunsch
An intermediate appellate court in New York recently affirmed the dismissal of a complaint asserting a potpourri of tort claims against a community newspaper based on its publication of an archived photograph to illustrate a current news story.
New York State Appellate Court Rejects Defamation and Right of Publicity
An intermediate appellate court in New York recently affirmed the dismissal of a complaint asserting a potpourri of tort claims against a community newspaper based on its publication of an archived photograph to illustrate a current news story.
High Court Hands Privacy Victory to Meghan Markle in Battle with Mail on Sunday
Mr Justice Warby gave summary judgment against Associated Newspapers in respect of the privacy claim, and on the issues of subsistence and infringement of copyright, concluding in each case that there was no realistic prospect of ANL successfully defending those issues at trial.
Oklahoma Court SLAPPs Police Officer’s False Light Claim
It is comforting to media and satisfying to their counsel when courts recognize accuracy, professionally achieved. One Oklahoma district court provided that comfort and satisfaction recently in Yates v. Gannett.
Easier Said than Done? Recent Developments in Ontario’s Anti-SLAPP Law
After several years of uncertainty around the interpretation and application of Ontario’s anti-SLAPP legislation, the past six months have brought a number of important developments.
Contempt and Suppression Down Under
When the third most powerful man in the Vatican was convicted of molesting two choirboys by an Australian jury in December 2018, media companies scrambled worldwide. Yet in Australia, there was media silence on specific details of the case.
Covington Catholic Students’ Cases Dismissed
The Kentucky District Court recently dismissed lawsuits filed against CNN, The Washington Post and NBCUniversal by classmates of Nick Sandmann.
Ten Questions to a Media Lawyer: Dana Green
The New York Times counsel reflects on her legal education, career, COVID living and more.
Federal District Court Dismisses Nunes Defamation Suit Against Washington Post
The lawsuit—one of many filed by Rep. Nunes—concerns a Post article reporting that a senior U.S. intelligence official briefed the House Intelligence Committee that Russia wanted to see President Trump reelected.
Biden: How to Deal with the Plight of the Press; Was De-Platforming Trump Warranted; and Choosing Sides in the Dominion Libel Cases
MLRC Executive Director reflects on the challenges facing president Biden, big tech deplatforming former president Trump, and how the media bar might consider a worthy defamation suit.
North Carolina Media Wins Access to Campus Assault Records
The complexity in the case was presented by the core legal issue, which was whether FERPA provided the university with discretion to release or withhold the records through the Supremacy Clause, or whether the discretion afforded by FERPA was overridden by the state’s Public Records Law.