Suspended New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has filed a defamation lawsuit against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The suit in U.S. District Court in New Orleans claims Goodell has made false statements about Vilma while discussing the NFL’s bounty investigation …
When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her there was not much they could do because the harassment occurred off campus. So the 14-year-old girl, Alex …
Both sides intend to appeal an Iowa jury’s decision that a television campaign ad by Democrats libeled and slandered Sioux City Republican Sen. Rick Bertrand during the 2010 campaign, The Des Moines Register reported. A Woodbury County jury has awarded …
A Longmont, Colo. woman has taken down several critical web postings to settle a libel lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by recycOil, a grease and oil recycling company. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, Jennifer Hronkin admitted in the settlement …
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been hit with a $60 million libel lawsuit by a former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executive over a column posted on Slate.com concerning an insurance bid-rigging scandal. William Gilman, a former Marsh executive …
An Alabama appeals court has ruled in favor of an Anniston newspaper that was sued by a city councilman who claimed he was libeled in a story published in February 2009. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals upheld a lower …
Michael Lewis, best-selling author of “The Big Short” about the mortgage meltdown, has been sued for defamation by an asset manager featured in the book. Other targets in the lawsuit are Lewis’ publisher and prominent hedge fund manager Steven Eisman …
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a cookbook author who accused Jerry Seinfeld of hurting her reputation by mocking her on national television. In a ruling filed with the court last Friday, state Justice Marcy Friedman said it …
