After New York state’s highest court declined to hear an appeal of a suit sparked by an article on the downfall of the CEO of ...

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited ...

First Amendment experts say Mr. Trump’s lawsuits, based on an unproven legal theory, lack merit. But more could be on the way ...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters has asked for summary judgment in a defamation lawsuit filed against Walters by a former ...

Casino mogul Steve Wynn has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal that, if granted, could give the justices a chance ...

Mark Robinson, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in North Carolina, has dropped a libel suit against CNN, reports Politico.

President Trump has won some victories about whether the 60-year-old precedent protecting sharp-elbowed journalism could be ...

First Amendment advocates warn that eliminating such protections for the press could turn libel lawsuits into weapons of political suppression.

The allegations against Greig Nori have not been tested in court, and statements of defence have not been filed in either ...

CNN also remains in the crosshairs of Trump and the political right, who have made the network the poster child for their ...

Sullivan. That 1964 ruling, as well as a handful of subsequent cases, made it much harder for public figures like Mr. Trump to win libel lawsuits.” In his October lawsuit against CBS News ...