Explore the differences between slander and libel, understand legal implications, and see real-world examples to better grasp defamation law.

Statements of pure opinion are not actionable as defamation, as they do not imply facts capable of being proven true or false. Qureshi v. St. Barnabas Hosp. Ctr., 430 ...

Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch helped a New Zealand businessman vindicate his reputation in a libel lawsuit. Counsel for the plaintiff previously helped Dominion Voting Systems secure a $787 million ...

Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that injures their reputation. Legal protections for a person’s reputation go back to common law and were well developed over the ...

A federal judge dismissed a defamation suit from the author and journalist Michael Wolff against First Lady Melania Trump, ...

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA ...

After the settlement with Justin Baldoni’s company, one potentially thorny legal issue remains: whether she is due damages ...

The Motown singer has separate claims pending against the accusers for allegedly deleting evidence and stealing property Emma McIntyre/Getty A judge dismissed Smokey Robinson and his wife Frances’ ...

A state Senate panel on Wednesday gave initial approval to a proposal that would change the state's defamation laws, with critics of the measure calling it unconstitutional, vague and ...