Open Directory - Society: Law: Legal Information: Defamation

Basics of Minnesota Defamation Law - General information provided by an attorney based in Minneapolis.
Defamation - Excerpt from David Hurd's Employee Survival Handbook covering defamation in the workplace.
Defamation Act 1996 - Complete text of the official legislation for the UK.
Foreign Libel, Slander and Defamation Cases - Summaries of cases from countries outside the U.S.
Unfettered Press: Libel Law in the United States - An overview of libel law from the perspective of journalists and the media.
It's a Small World After All: Emerging Protections for the U.S. Media Sued in England - An article by Laura R. Handman and Robert D. Balin that reflects upon the practice of plaintiffs bringing their libel suits into British courts, despite not residing in Britain. (September 01, 1998)
New South Wales Law Reform Commission: Defamation - Complete text of the Commission's report. (October 01, 1995)
The Future of Libel Law and Independent Appellate Review: Making Sense of Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. - Originally published in Cornell Law Review by Gary A. Paranzino. (March 01, 1985)

"Defamation" search on: AOL - Ask - Bing - Gigablast - Google - Lycos - Yahoo - Yippy

Volunteer to edit this category.

Visit our sister sites mozilla.org | MusicMoz | Wikipedia

Last update: Friday, July 2, 2010 4:36:33 AM EDT - edit

Open Directory - Society: Law: Legal Information: Defamation: Specific Cases

David John Cadwell Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd. & Deborah E. Lipstadt - British historian David Irving brought a case against Jewish activist Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin, claiming that her work, 'Denying the Holocaust', libeled him.
Hamilton v. Al Fayed - Mr Hamilton, the former Tory MP, sued Harrods boss Mr al-Fayed over allegations Mr Fayed made in a Channel 4 programme that Mr Hamilton had accepted cash from him to ask parliamentary questions on his behalf.
John Peter Zenger Trial - Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal, was brought to trial and charged with seditious libel against New York Colonial Governor William Cosby.
Media Defamation.org - Complaint about the unauthorized use of pictures from a matchmaking website in a broadcast news expose on immigration scams.
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan - Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery, Alabama, brought suit in a state court alleging that he had been libeled by an advertisement in corporate petitioner's newspaper, the text of which appeared over the names of the four individual petitioners.
Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Limited and Others - Mr. Reynolds, former Taoiseach of Ireland, sued Times Newspapers Ltd. for the contents of an article they published about him sub-headed 'Why a fib too far proved fatal for the political career of Ireland's peacemaker and Mr. Fixit'.

"Specific Cases" search on: AOL - Ask - Bing - Gigablast - Google - Lycos - Yahoo - Yippy

Volunteer to edit this category.

Visit our sister sites mozilla.org | MusicMoz | Wikipedia

Last update: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:21:25 PM EST - edit