During a Texas campaign rally on Friday, Donald Trump told voters that if he is elected president, he will change libel laws to make it easier to win lawsuits against media outlets. The Republican ...

THE subject of libel and its restraint by legal penalty is one of immense difficulty both in England and the United States, owing to the rôle which has been assigned in both countries to public ...

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 ...

“Heed Their Rising Voices,” proclaimed the full-page ad that appeared in the Tuesday, March 29, 1960, edition of the New York Times. The ad requested donations to support the legal defense of Martin ...

FILE - This Sept. 20, 2010 file photo shows musician Courtney Love in New York. Love hadn’t been born and tweeting was reserved for birds when The New York Times won a landmark libel case at the ...

Presidents cannot change libel laws. And yet that is exactly what President Donald Trump has proposed, over and over again. When faced with criticism by the media, Trump’s first impulse is to tighten ...

This week, American actor Johnny Depp lost a libel suit he filed in London, suing the newspaper The Sun for running an article that called him a "wife beater," a reference to his relationship with ...