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Federal judge orders ‘investigative blogger’ to pay $2.5 million in defamation case

donal brown March 29, 2012

An Oregon blogger was ordered to pay Obsidian Finance Group $2.5 million for accusing the company of tax fraud on the website ObsidianFinanceSucks.com. The judge rejected claims that the founders of Obsidian were public figures. The Electric Frontier Foundation had filed a brief for the blogger arguing that a previous jury verdict was a threat to free speech. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 29, 2012, by Nick McCann. Full story   

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U.S. Supreme Court lets stand dismissal of $10.1 million against Tampa Bay Times

donal brown March 27, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court decided a libel case in favor of the Tampa Bay Times. A doctor sued over a series of 2003 articles about his demotion from chief of medicine at a medical center to a cardiology specialty. A jury decided for the doctor, but the trial judge threw out the verdict and the $10.1 million judgment on the grounds that the plaintiff’s evidence did not pass First Amendment muster. -db From the Tampa

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Former policeman arrested for defaming chief wins right to pursue lawsuit

donal brown March 26, 2012

A U.S. district court ruled a former policeman can continue a civil lawsuit against a Louisiana police chief for violating his First Amendment rights. The policeman was arrested for criminal defamation for sending an e-mail to a local newspaper criticizing them for not reporting the chief’s alleged involvement in another officer’s DUI arrest. -db From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, March 23, 2012, by Andrea Papagianis. Full story    

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Ron Paul stumbles over First Amendment issue

donal brown March 13, 2012

The Ron Paul campaign for the Republican presidential nomination suffered a setback when a federal judge in California ruled that they could not force Google to reveal the identity of  an anonymous poster of a YouTube video that pretended to be pro-Ron Paul but actually denigrated him. The judge dismissed the case on narrow grounds that the Paul campaign had not filed a valid complaint. -db From a commentary for the Citizens Media Law Project,

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Opinion: No valid defamation claim for Sandra Fluke against Rush Limbaugh

donal brown March 12, 2012

Even though he finds Rush Limbaugh despicable, Marc J. Randazza writing for the Citizens Media Law Project, argues that Sandra Fluke does not, for a number of reasons, have grounds for a defamation case after Limbaugh called her a “slut” and a “prostitute.” -db From a commentary for the Citizens Media Law Project, March 8, 2012 by Marc J. Randazza. Full story  

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