Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely ...

When the Supreme Court ruled in 1964 that news organizations need no longer fear ruinous libel judgments over small, inadvertent errors, it sparked an explosion of investigative reporting. A direct ...

Conservatives have long had their sights set on revisiting a Supreme Court case that set a high bar for public officials to prove the media defamed them, but President Donald Trump’s return to power ...

Man charged with criminal libel for comments he allegedly posted on Craigslist. Dec. 2, 2008— -- A Colorado man accused of posting comments about his ex-girlfriend on the Web site Craigslist has ...

As lawyers who often defend defamation suits, we know from experience that it’s not just media defendants who are sued for libel. Defamation suits are routinely filed against all sorts of businesses, ...