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Defamation: The Weapon of Choice to Stifle Pursuit of Justice and Free Speech Defamation laws as different from ‘ordinary’ attacks on free speech. They aim to shut down critical speech by intimidating critics and undermining their active public engagement. Illustration: The Wire Women11/Mar/2021 It has been more than two weeks since Priya Ramani was acquitted in a defamation suit filed by former Union minister and journalist, M.J. Akbar. It was followed, expectedly and deservedly, by collective celebrations and resounding applause, but it’s time that the euphoria gave way to mo...

Georgia family sues grocery clerk for posting about their alleged involvement in Jan 6. insurrection Kim Bellware, The Washington Post March 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail From her Washington hotel on Jan. 6, Katheryn Cagle asked for prayers and assured friends and family via Facebook that she and her mother were safe. "Yes, Mama and I are in Washington, D.C.," Cagle allegedly posted the day a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. Cagle's followers reacted with thumbs-up and heart emoji, but not everyone was feeling the love. "I thought Kate Cagle [was] on the planning committee, I hope she doesn't pl...

Mon, Feb 22nd 2021 1:33pm — Mike Masnick As you may recall, Rep. Devin Nunes has spent the last few years suing all sorts of critics and journalists, in a vexatious bout of abusing the courts to try to stifle criticism. Most famously, Nunes sued a satirical cow on Twitter (that case is still ongoing). But in December of 2019 he sued CNN. As we noted at the time -- despite a weird column by a media critic at the Washington Post saying that this case was "halfway decent" -- the case seemed like the dumbest Nunes' suit we'd seen so far. The filing was more performative nonsense, which seemed ...

We Stand, was being dropped from the network owing to corporate downsizing. In his initial complaint, Bongino asked for "compensatory damages and punitive damages in a sum not less than $15,000,000." Bongino did not, however, explain how the article was defamatory under the law. Bongino's show had in fact been dropped, and NRATV even released a statement after Markay's story was published, stating that it had made every effort to retain Bongino and would miss him. Bongino also failed to provide the news outlet with written notice of his intent to sue at least five days before filing the suit...

Defamation lawsuits brought by Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) and its local subsidiary against six environmental activists was an abuse of the legal process, the high court ruled on Tuesday.