Defamation

Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann announced Friday that he settled a $275 million defamation lawsuit against NBC. 

Newly-acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse could sue White House press secretary Jen Psaki for defamation, following her claim Tuesday afternoon that he was linked to the Proud Boys and her implication that he was a violent “white supremacist.”

Rittenhouse has come to another crossroads: Will he spend more time in court to hold the people and companies accountable who defamed him?

John Pierce, former defense attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday host Joel Pollak that President Joe Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’s slanderous derision of his former client as a “white supremacist” exposes them to charges of defamation.

Kyle Rittenhouse could sue media outlets that continue to refer to him as a murderer or a white supremacist after his acquittal, according to one of the defamation lawyers that represented student Nick Sandmann against CNN and others.

President Joe Biden could face a civil defamation suit from newly-acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for calling him a “white supremacist” last year — without evidence, and before Biden was able to enjoy the immunities of presidential office.

A billboard owner in France has been fined 10,000 for “publicly insulting” President Macron for depicting the French leader as Adolph Hitler.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit this week revived part of a previously-dismissed defamation lawsuit from Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) against now-Politico reporter Ryan Lizza, a decision that Nunes told Breitbart News he expects will lead to a trial by jury against the establishment media figure.

Australia’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that media companies are liable for defamatory comments posted to their Facebook pages by readers, a decision that will further complicate the worldwide debate about whether social media platforms should have the same legal obligations as publishers.

A federal judge in the nation’s capital rejected the Washington Post’s motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper from Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) late Wednesday, instead allowing the suit to proceed to discovery where the powerful California conservative will be able to gather information about the newspaper’s internal communications about the congressman and the 2016 election.

All of the women charged with defamation after making MeToo-style allegations in Sweden have been found guilty, according to a review of ten defamation cases.

Lawyers representing attorney Sidney Powell, who was sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems in January, argued this week that “no reasonable person” would have believed her claims about election fraud and she is therefore not liable.

Fox Corporation and three of its anchors have been sued by Smartmatic, an election technology company, for more than $2.7 billion.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit against pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell on Friday for defamation after she alleged in numerous reports and interviews the company was tied to election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Kash Patel, chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, has filed a $50 million lawsuit against CNN and several reporters who work at the cable outlet for what he claims are false reports that defamed him.

Johnny Depp has lost his libel case against the U.K. Sun newspaper over an article that called him a “wife beater.”

At a time when businesses face an unprecedented threat of race-riot looting, review website Yelp has announced it will introduce warning labels that tell the public if a business has been “accused of racist behavior.”

A judge allowed Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times to proceed, saying that a jury should decide whether the editor acted with “actual malice.”

The brother of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s girlfriend Lauren Sanchez sued the multi-billionaire over a National Enquirer story about Bezos’s marriage-ending affair.

Former Trump challenger Hillary Clinton is refusing to accept the legal documents related to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) $50 million defamation suit, the presidential hopeful’s attorney told the New York Post.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not liable for defamation in a Los Angeles federal court on Friday.

Lawyers for Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly pressured British cave rescuer Vern Unsworth for criticizing Musk during a trial on claims of defamation after Musk smeared Unsworth as “Pedo Guy.”

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN for a fake news story the outlet printed about him before Thanksgiving.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) intends to file lawsuits against both CNN and the Daily Beast over fake hit pieces the outlets have published about him in recent days, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

A federal judge has ruled that Tesla CEO Elon Musk must face court in a defamation case brought against him by British cave rescuer Vern Unsworth, who Musk called a “pedo guy.” 

Australia’s Qantas on Monday rejected accusations of in-flight racism from US performer will.i.am, with the airline saying it would back legal action against the Black Eyed Peas frontman.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) team is signaling impending legal action, demanding a retraction from Hillary Clinton regarding the statements she made during an October 17 appearance on Campaign HQ With David Plouffe, in which she implied that Gabbard is a “favorite of the Russians” as well as a “Russian asset.”

2020 White House contender Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) legal team is demanding failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to retract her remarks in which alleged the military combat veteran of being Russia’s preferred candidate, according to a report.

A witness linking Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the murder of a left-wing politician lied in his deposition, a public prosecutor revealed Wednesday, following the publication of a report Bolsonaro denounced in an impassioned Facebook live as “villainy.”

Liberty University and its president Jerry Falwell, Jr., are preparing a massive legal battle to fight the merchants of a “smear campaign” being waged against the world’s largest Christian school, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Oberlin College announced this week that it is filing an appeal on the Gibson’s Bakery defamation case, which resulted in a $25 million jury verdict against the school.

Professor Michael Mann — the litigious climatologist who invented the discredited “Hockey Stick” chart and was implicated heavily in the Climategate scandal — has lost a long-running lawsuit against Canadian climate sceptic Dr Tim Ball.

The owner of Gibson’s Bakery, which won a multi-million dollar legal verdict in a defamation case against Oberlin College, claims that the college is now waiting for the bakery’s owner to die from his recent cancer diagnosis before moving forward with an appeal.

Former vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation can proceed, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

Covington Catholic students are taking legal action against 12 individuals, including celebrities, lawmakers, and media personalities.

An Ohio judge has ordered Oberlin College to post a $36 million bond after it refused to pay the multi-million judgment to Gibson’s Bakery stemming from the family business’s defamation case against the college.

Gibson’s Bakery has been awarded an additional $6.5 million in attorney’s fees and expenses on top of the $25 million judgement that was laid down by an Ohio jury again Oberlin College, which it found had defamed the family-owned business.

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.