MediaLawLetter February 2017
MLRC
From the Executive Director’s Desk, Protecting a Press and First Amendment Under Fire: A Blueprint for Action
Free Press Coalition Forming; Pro Bono Help Sought
Ten Questions to a Media Lawyer: Laura Prather
The Second Installment in Our New Series
LIBEL & PRIVACY
Texas Supreme Court Reverses and Remands Important Media Defamation Case for New Trial
Newspaper To Seek Rehearing to Have Case Dismissed
Brady v. Klentzman
Massachusetts High Court: Anti-SLAPP Law Protects Opinion Writing
Broader Interpretation of Statute May Help Journalists
Cardno Chemrisk v. Foytlin
11th Cir.: Applying CA Anti-SLAPP Law, Court Holds No Actual Malice in Doctors’ Dispute
Court Also Finds No Commercial Speech on Lanham Act Claim
Tobinick v. Novella
N.D. Ga.: Court Rules Anti-SLAPP Law Cannot Be Used in Federal Court
SLAPP Law Conflicts With Federal Motion to Dismiss Standard
Carbone v. Cable News Network
D.C. Super.: Court Grants Anti-SLAPP Motion and Dismisses Liberian Public Works Minister’s Libel Complaint
Moore v. Costa
N.Y. App.: Court Reinstates Statutory Privacy Case Against Lifetime Docudrama
Axe Murderers Have Name & Image Rights, Too!
Porco v. Lifetime
Tex. App.: Defamation Case vs. Texas Newspaper Survives Summary Judgment
Series of Articles as a Whole Could Be False and Defamatory
Scripps NP Operating, LLC v. Carter
S.D.N.Y.: Biometric Privacy Class Action Falls Flat Under Spokeo
Case Illustrates Difference Between Legitimate Fears and Compensable Injury
Vigil v. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
REPORTER’S PRIVILEGE
Tenn. App.: Press Shield Law Protects Dateline from Disclosing Unaired Interview
State Failed to Show Information Was Unobtainable By Alternative Means
Tennessee v. Clark