...Defamation: Dignity and Reputation 2. Public Recognition and Respect a. Sexuality and Gender: D...Defamation and libel laws protect the dignity of a person's good reputa... of public officials and public figures. (284) Libel, a dignitary tort, protects the targe...
More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous place for journalists, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect. The risks to foreign journalists, especially for (but hardly limited to) Western correspondents, have risen dramatically. There is another trend that is even more disturbing. When it comes to journalists, the killers get away with the murders in nearly nine out of ten cases. In no less than 89% of journalist murders worldwide, there has been little or no prosecution whatsoever. At the same time, combat journalists and other reporters who cover dangerous situations still face great risks. No less than 18% of the journalists killed on the job in all circumstances since 1992 died covering combat or some other fo...
..., according to data compiled with other figures cited below by the New York-based Committee to Pro... was later declassified and released to the public. The US military exonerated the soldiers involved.... other public figures have brought criminal libel suits against journalists from Thailand to Morocco...
...-fronter." Petitioner brought this diversity libel action against respondent. After the jury returned... bars media liability for defamation of a public official absent proof that the defamatory statemen... than do public officials and public figures, they are more vulnerable to injury from defamatio...
When the media knowingly republish defamation of public figures, the media are subject to possible libel actions by the defamed parties to the same extent as the original defamingparties, even when the defamatory statements are themselves newsworthy in context. This is the dilemma created by the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, in which the Court went to great lengths to protect the media 's ability to report the news-even news that is false-so long as the republication is not done with a reckless disregard for the truth. What, then, should be done about information that is known to be false but is nonetheless necessary to inform public discourse? This Note suggests allowing republication based on the newsworthiness of the defamatory statements, i.e., when it ...
The court's reasoning Bob Ambrogi, an attorney and the executive director of the Massachusetts Newspaper Association, wrote on his blog that the Noonan ruling is "the most dangerous libel decision in decades," because of the court's finding that truth is not always a defense to libel and the adoption of a common law definition of actual malice. [...] the attorneys argued, since that decision, no court in Massachusetts has relied on the statute to find that a truthful statement can be libelous.
...The court noted that matters of public concern, such as a report by a newspaper about a p... applied to libel claims involving private figures; the law had only been held unconstitutional in it...
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion," by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 688 pages, $35 (nf) At nearly 34 years, William J. Brennan Jr. served longer as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 20th century than all but two men.
... get his due as one of the most important figures in American legal history. In the mid-1980s, Wermi... Alabama jury awarded Sullivan $500,000 for libel, based on statements in a civil-rights- focused ad... plaintiffs to prove false statements about public officials (Sullivan was elected by voters as a Mon...
... OF THE GROSS IRRESPONSIBILITY STANDARD IN LIBEL . On a June night in 1971, a high school teacher i... false statement, Chapadeau charged into a public courtroom to defend what remained of his reputatio... Court extended that rule to all public figures in Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts. (5) Subsequentl...
... Petitioner conceded that because he was a "public figure" the First and Fourteenth Amendments preclu... editorial process of a media defendant in a libel case is not required, authorized, or presaged by t... public officials, and extended to "public figures" by Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, (1967).[Footn...
A little more than a week ago, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to fundraisers in two battleground-state cities, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Neither stop included the White House press corps; requests by local media to cover the events were denied by the vice president's press office. The Democratic National Committee arranged the events for the Obama Victory Fund.
..."Two, it is important for the public to know what the president and vice president are ... of a Republican newspaper, arrested on libel charges for writing accusations of incompetence ag... surrounding press freedom and public figures. That case established the very high standard of p...
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