Torts Blog

October 5, 2023 Back in August of last year I reported that professional golfer Patrick Reed filed a defamation claim against a number of de...

October 21, 2023 If you have been following the news about the lawsuit filed by the surviving families of the Sandy Hook school shooting aga...

A few days ago, I posted a story questioning why Rudy Giuliani would concede the main elements of a cause of action for defamation he had be...

 Last Friday I posted a story about how Rudy Giuliani attempted to prevent having to comply discovery in a defamation case by conceding all ...

Last Tuesday Rudy Giuliani filed a  two-page stipulation  in a long-running defamation lawsuit by two Georgia election workers stating that ...

It has finally happened: someone has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI over an AI “hallucination” (i.e., confidently spewing out something that is b...

August 26, 202 2 Long time readers of this blog know that over the years I have posted many stories about golf related torts.  Go here and ...

 Over at Verdict , Michael Dorf (Cornell Law) has published a good comment on the defamation case against Sidney Powell. In case you don...

Last month, the Texas Supreme Court rejected Alex Jones’ petition to review a lower court's decision to allow a defamation lawsuit to pr...

A few days ago, I reported that the Trump campaign had filed lawsuits against the NY Times and the Washington Post ( here and here ).  Toda...

Last week I commented on the fact that the Trump campaign had filed a claim against the New York Times for defamation based on an Op-Ed piec...

Donald J Trump for President, Inc. (the official name of Trump's reelection campaign) filed suit against the New York Times for libel la...

The most recent edition of the podcast "Digital Detectives" is devoted to a discussion of what lawyers need to look out for when h...

By now, I am sure you have heard all the jokes about the lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes.  If not, here is the bottom line: Rep. Devin Nun...

By now you have probably heard that a U.S. District Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels against Donald Trump ba...

Back in June, the New York Times published an editorial that stated, among other things that "In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened ...

A few days ago, I reported on a recent case in which the Georgia Appellate Court held that parents could be held liable for failing to super...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal law blog published a story titled " Parents May Be Liable for What Their Kids Post on Facebook, Cou...

A few days ago, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided an important new case on defamation.  The court held that Gertz v. Robert...

As reported in the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law :  The Defamation Act 2013, approved by the British Parliament on Apri...