California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking Fox News to court, filing a $787 million defamation lawsuit over what he calls a deceptively edited video clip aired by host Jesse Watters. The segment, Newsom says, wrongly portrayed him as lying about a phone call ...

During his long-running defamation case, Ben Roberts-Smith’s former lawyers were adamant about one thing: this was not a war crimes trial, it was a civil case. Their client, Australia’s most famous living soldier, was the one who had been wronged, by the media’s accusations. He was in court to clear his name.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the decision by authorities in Thailand to bring criminal defamation lawsuits against two renowned journalists who reported on a bribery case. HRW

In December 2018, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s law against criminal defamation on behalf of a man arrested for insulting police online. Twenty-five states have laws that make it a crime to publicly say mean things about people ...

Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely debase someone's character. Defamation is a false statement ...