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Minnesota TV station loses million dollar libel judgment

donal brown November 11, 2011

A Minnesota jury found that an ABC affiliate station acted with reckless disregard for the truth and awarded a naturopathic healer $1 million in a defamation suit. The suit hung on the testimony of one of the healer’s clients that the healer had advised her to stop taking an anti-anxiety medication. The jury found the client’s statements about the advise were false and since the station did not verify them, it had acted with disregard

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Rapper responds to Lohan defamation lawsuit

donal brown November 8, 2011

Through his lawyers the Rapper Pitbull struck back at Lindsay Lohan who sued him for defamation for a hit song that mentioned Lohan’s incarceration. Providing a detailed account of her encounters with the law to prove Lohan is a California resident, the lawyers said she did not have standing to sue in Long Island. Lohan’s defamation complaint contended that since the song had an international impact and over 3 million downloads in the U.S., she

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Woman claims documentary defames her as rapist and prostitute

donal brown November 7, 2011

A woman is suing a documentary maker for portraying her as a rapist and prostitute 30 years ago when she followed her fiance to England. The woman said she granted interviews with the filmmakers on the belief that they were making a film on paparazzi.-db From the Courthouse News Service, November 7, 2011, by Matt Reynolds. Full story

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Seattle school administration considers new policy of prior restraint for student free press

donal brown November 7, 2011

A policy under consideration by the Seattle School Board would give principals the authority for prior review of high school newspapers and allow a stop to publication if they detected libel, obscenity and violations of the school’s educational mission. Critics argue that the principal would gain censorship powers and take responsibility for content out of students’ hands with the result that legal liability would rest solely on the administration. -db From the Seattle Times, November

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