Gearing Up for MLRC’s Biggest Conference of the Year
George FreemanA look behind the scenes of MLRC's Media Law Conference, October 4-6 at the Lansdowne Resort in Northern Virginia.
Ten Questions to a Media Lawyer
C. Amanda MartinNorth Carolina lawyer and academic on her beginnings, work related to the O.J. Simpson trial, teaching, NC must-sees, summer reads and more.
Maine Supreme Court Affirms Trial Win for Newspaper That Reported on Sex Abuse Allegations and Coverup
Cynthia CountsThe Maine Supreme Court affirmed a jury’s verdict in favor of a newspaper company and two journalists accused of defamation for reporting on decades old sex abuse allegations against a former police captain.
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince’s Claims Against The Intercept Dismissed for Lack of Actual Malice
Margaret N. StrouseJudge Preska referenced the actual malice standard under New York’s anti-SLAPP statute but, because actual malice already was required of Prince as a public figure, she did not decide which source of the actual malice standard should govern.
Ohio Appellate Court Upholds Post-Trial Libel Injunction
John C. GreinerAn Ohio court recently demonstrated how a court may enjoin a party from libeling someone, without violating the Constitution.
Charity’s Defamation Claim Against Canadian Public Broadcaster Can Continue in U.S. Federal Court
Sam LachmanThe Court dismissed the charity’s claims for breach of contract, promissory estoppel, and negligent misrepresentation for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, leaving its defamation claim to proceed to discovery. At issue is
Arizona Law Banning Video Recording of Police Ruled Unconstitutional
Matthew E. KelleyRuling in favor of a coalition of news organizations, a federal judge has struck down an Arizona statute that would have made it a crime to record video of police within eight feet of them after being warned to stop.
“Server Test” Is Reaffirmed (For Now) in Hunley v. Instagram
Jim Rosenfeld and Raphael Holoszyc-PimentelThe server test has been the law in the Ninth Circuit since 2007, but in recent years it has come under attack in lower courts in other jurisdictions.
Maine Governor Vetoes Legislation Requiring News Outlets to Establish Unconstitutional Censorship Process for “Foreign Government-Influenced” Political Communications
Sigmund D. Schutz, Alexandra A. Harriman, and Margeaux E. LavoieNo state has come closer than Maine to imposing on news outlets constitutionally fraught and onerous obligations to police and censor foreign-influenced spending on political advertising.
A Victory for Transparency in Uvalde
Reid PillifantMore than a year after a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a judge has ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to release information about the attack and the law enforcement response.