Netflix has won a defamation case for the show When They See Us, which tells the story of the Central Park Five. The case was brought against the streaming service and its director, Ava DuVernay, […]
An Australian court has ordered Google to identify the person behind an anonymous bad review of a dentist. Dr Matthew Kabbabe, a teeth-whitening specialist in Melbourne, sought the order so he could sue for defamation. […]
Elon Musk did not defame a British caver who helped in last year’s rescue of trapped Thai schoolboys by calling him a “pedo guy”, a US jury has found. Vernon Unsworth sought $190m (£145m) in […]
Tesla boss Elon Musk is due to take the stand in a Los Angeles court and face the British diving specialist he accused of being a paedophile. Vern Unsworth was among the team credited with […]
An Australian senator has won a defamation case against a former political opponent she had accused of making sexist slurs towards her. Sarah Hanson-Young, of the Greens party, argued David Leyonhjelm defamed her in interviews […]
Actress Rebel Wilson has been awarded A$4.5m (£2.7m; $3.6m) in Australia’s largest payout for a defamation case. Ms Wilson successfully argued that a series of magazine articles had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar. […]
Fake news can have real consequences – and, as a B.C. court heard this week, it can lead to real costs. A B.C. Supreme Court judge awarded “special costs” to the plaintiff in a five-year […]
Rolling Stone magazine and a journalist have been found guilty of defamation over a false article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia. The $7.5m (£6m) lawsuit was brought by Nicole Eramo, an […]
TV star Kim Kardashian dropped a lawsuit against a website that claimed she staged an armed robbery in Paris after the two sides resolved the issue. Kardashian withdrew the lawsuit filed this month in New […]
In Charlottesville Virginia, jurors are heading back to court for a second week in the trial pitting the University of Virginia against Rolling Stone magazine over their 2014 story about a rape at the university. The story was the account […]
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