Bauchi State High Court number 7, presided over by Justice Abdulkadir Lamido Kabir, has awarded the sum of N105m against the ...

Former Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte is pushing for a national conversation on her call f ...

A decision in July by the Minnesota Supreme Court could influence libel cases involving chat rooms, newsgroups, and e-mail discussion lists. The court ruled that an Alabama scholar could not collect ...

INSTAGRAM posts have become the central argument in a legal battle between a Filipino-Indian businessman and his Singaporean ex-wife.

An Illinois politician's attempt to unmask the identity of an e-mail poster who allegedly made disparaging remarks about her teenage son in an online forum is stirring a debate about free speech ...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday defended a controversial cybercrime law penalising online libel, a day after the top court upheld its legality in a setback for campaigners who argue ...

Defamation is the act of publishing false and damaging statements about a person or business to a third party. Traditionally, defamatory statements have been separated into two categories: slander and ...

SYDNEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Australia's highest court overturned on Wednesday a ruling that had found Google engaged in defamation by supplying a link to a contested newspaper article, throwing the ...

With Gov. Ron DeSantis getting ready to run for president and Republicans holding supermajorities in the Legislature, your elected representatives are faced with deciding who to crack down on first.

A New Jersey libel suit illustrates the challenges faced by businesses seeking to settle the score when employees take to online review sites to denigrate them. A Superior Court judge dismissed a suit ...

Merchants irked by online reviews will still have an open lane to file libel lawsuits against their critics, the Oregon Supreme Court signaled, while media organizations will remain relatively secure ...

A physics professor at the University of North Dakota has filed a $50,000 libel lawsuit because a former student wrote an online article accusing him of being a pedophile and having odd sexual habits.