The attorney for Gibson’s Bakery is pushing back against Oberlin College’s new version of the facts about the bakery’s massive defamation lawsuit, which resulted in a $44 million verdict against Oberlin.
Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar released a statement to the community on Friday claiming that the college’s legal battle with Gibson’s Bakery is far from over.
Comedian Bill Maher criticized social justice warriors at Oberlin College this week over their role in defaming a local bakery. The family-owned business won a $44 million judgment in a defamation case against the notoriously progressive school.
The jury in the Oberlin College defamation case has awarded Gibson’s Bakery an additional $33 million in punitive damages. The additional damages bring the total award to $44 million.
The punitive phase of the trial is now in session, which means Oberlin could be ordered to pay up to three times that $11.2 million.
An Ohio jury ordered Oberlin College to pay $11.2 million in compensatory damages to a family bakery smeared by the university as racist.
Two years in a Dubai jail and a £50,000 fine are getting closer for a British woman who called her former husband’s new wife a “horse” on Facebook.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would sue the leaders of the Blue and White party for libel after one top would-be MK suggested his behavior in a corruption case involving submarine purchases “could constitute treason.”
Conservative commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes is reportedly suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for “defaming” him, publishing “false, damaging and defamatory statements,” and attempting to “deplatform” him.
The Supreme Court has rejected a case regarding whether or not Yelp is responsible for allegedly defamatory reviews on its platform.
A federal judge in Miami threw out a defamation lawsuit Wednesday by a Russian businessman against Buzzfeed over the publication of the infamous Russia “dossier” in January 2017, saying it was protected by the “fair report privilege.”
Buzzfeed suffered a legal setback in a federal court in Miami on Tuesday in its attempt to fight a defamation lawsuit over its publication of the infamous, and uncorroborated, Russia “dossier” on President Donald Trump last year.
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, is suing the Democratic National Committee and law firm Perkins Coie for defamation over their role in the Steele dossier.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed pornographic actress Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, an attorney for the president says.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Lebanese military court handed down a six-month prison sentence to a journalist for presenting views critical of the army, a court official told AFP on Thursday.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley commented on President Trump’s call to change libel laws by stating such calls are troubling and changing the standard would require Supreme Court justices who want
President Donald Trump is going to war against Michael Wolff’s book, sending a cease and desist letter to his publisher.
Federal Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Tuesday.
CNN host Don Lemon smeared Breitbart News on Friday evening, falsely telling his viewers that Breitbart News was a platform for white supremacists and “neo-Nazis.”
A New York federal court judge on Thursday ordered the writers(s) of the New York Times editorial that falsely linked former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the assassination attempt on then-Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) to testify next Wednesday in an evidentiary hearing that legal experts have described as an unusual move that may benefit Palin.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s lawyers will reportedly subpoena nearly two dozen New York Times reporters, editors, and employees and ask the Times to produce “every internal communication it has had about her since 2011” for her defamation lawsuit.
Lawyers representing former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) appeared in federal court in Manhattan on Friday for an initial hearing in Palin’s lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation, following the Times’ editorial accusing the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee of inciting violence.
Robert Barnes, attorney and contributor to LawNewz.com, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday regarding the defamation suit former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against the New York Times.
Better to offer Sarah Palin an apology, a full retraction, and generous compensation. The New York Times really has no defense.
On Tuesday evening, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hired Hulk Hogan’s lawyers and sued the New York Times for defamation for falsely accusing her in a June 14 editorial of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ).
Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamic extremist-turned-reformist who now runs a counter-extremism think tank, will sue the Southern Poverty Law Center for including him on a list of anti-Muslim extremists, he announced on Bill Maher’s HBO show Friday night.
A man in Switzerland has been fined $4,100 for liking posts on Facebook’ that a judge ruled defamatory.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel Joel B. Pollak told Canadan journalist Evan Solomon that Howard Dean’s best defense against a defamation lawsuit for calling Stephen K. Bannon a “Nazi” would be that no one takes Dean seriously.
Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean called incoming White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen K. Bannon a “Nazi” on Sunday during an interview with journalist Evan Solomon of Canada’s CTV.
Former Secret Service officer and author of Crisis of Character, Gary J. Byrne, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday to discuss his planned defamation lawsuit “against his detractors,” including “Media Matters for America and David Brock,” as reported by the New York Post.
