Criminal libel is usually associated with countries that lack First Amendment-style protections, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has decided to use the little-known — and some say ...

Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely ...

New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.

The Alexis Wilkins' (FBI Director's Girlfriend's) Libel by Implication Suit Can Go Forward post reminded me of one of my favorite cases, Memphis Pub. Co. v. Nichols (Tenn. 1978). The Memphis ...

Ms. Jones is a professor of law at the University of Utah. In the days since a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to the libel plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, the question ...