Libel law
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.25.16
* From prosecutor to prisoner: former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane gets sentenced to 10 to 23 months. [CNN] * Oh, the irony: the ABA won’t publish a report calling Donald Trump a “libel bully” because of “the risk of the ABA being sued by Mr. Trump.” [New York Times] * How the AT&T/Time Warner […]
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Crime, Education / Schools, Politics, Rape
3 Lies That Linger Even After Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story Was Debunked
Even after the Rolling Stone debacle, many dubious beliefs persist about women who allege that they have been sexually assaulted, the men those women accuse, and how the media reports on it. - Sponsored
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Celebrities, Contracts, Defamation, Fat People, Free Speech, Weirdness
A Case That Will Make You Want To Gag
Can the maker of a product use contract law to shut up its users?
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Cozen O'Connor, Defamation, Kids, Law Schools, Lawsuit of the Day, Litigators, Trusts and Estates, Vicious Infighting, Weirdness
Lawsuit of the Day: A 'Big-Shot' Lawyer Sues His Trust-Fund-Having Daughter -- for Defamation?
A prominent Manhattan lawyer is suing his own daughter -- for libel. Throw a seven-figure trust fund into the mix, and we have ourselves a Lawsuit of the Day.... -
Asians, Media and Journalism, New York Times
Don't Mess With Singapore
Readers of the New York Times may have noted an odd correction/apology in the paper last week: In 1994, Philip Bowring, a contributor to the International Herald Tribune’s op-ed page, agreed as part of an undertaking with the leaders of the government of Singapore that he would not say or imply that Prime Minister Lee […]
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