The bolded sentence in the Defamatory Statement is false, malicious and highly defamatory.
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They noted that Greene's lawsuit did not allege that DiCaprio provided defamatory content for the film or helped decide whether to include defamatory content.
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It is not true and to assert otherwise is defamatory.
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Its purpose is to protect the monarchy from defamatory statements.
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Sorcha Faal produces mountains of fake news and defamatory content.
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Calling someone a liar can be defamatory ... or it might not.
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He offers only vague conclusions that the article is defamatory;3.
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The defamatory statements reported by The Daily Mail are 100% false.
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"These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging," Harder wrote.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange stinks.
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I will vigorously defend myself against these false and defamatory allegations.
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In short, Miller says the allegations are inaccurate, false and defamatory.
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Shortly thereafter Unsworth filed this lawsuit, claiming that Musk's statements were defamatory.
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It insulates social media companies when users post defamatory or libelous statements.
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Cohen said Daniels made defamatory statements about him in the TV interview.
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Wirecard responded to the reports saying they were "inaccurate, misleading and defamatory".
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For 'Tommy' to call me a paedophile is defamatory in the extreme.
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" Prosecutors soon announced a crackdown on "false or defamatory data in cyberspace.
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Narratives to the contrary are factually inaccurate and defamatory to UAM staff.
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The Trump campaign accused The Post of making "false and defamatory" statements.
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"You have made me the subject of insulting, defamatory remarks," Zolotov said.
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" The judge concluded, however, that Gubarev couldn't prove BuzzFeed "made a defamatory statement.
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Mr Abdo asserts that the comments identified by Dr Sarkar are not defamatory.
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"It is a defamatory statement to accuse her of a crime," Allred said.
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" In a statement to PEOPLE, Fator's rep called the allegations "baseless and defamatory.
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After Mr. Alix raised those issues, McKinsey called the allegations reckless and defamatory.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange bleaches his hair.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange is a communist.
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It also claims Clinton has made "false and defamatory statements" against the parents.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," Mr. Kasowitz wrote.
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" In his letter, Lauer called Nevils' claim "a dangerous and defamatory new allegation.
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" Yet when Berger asked LinkedIn to remove Dianova's "defamatory" post on Leven's alleged espionage embezzlement, "Scarlett" cited a section of the Communications Decency Act that said "we are not responsible for such content, even when it's alleged to be defamatory.
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The businessman's lawyer says the information was wrong and that the article was defamatory.
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" Later on Wednesday, National Beverage issued a statement calling the report "false and defamatory.
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Each of the passages that Harder describes as defamatory were sourced from Paskewich's complaint.
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" He also admits the video -- which has been deleted -- was "false, defamatory and malicious.
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The lawyer, John A. Gallagher of the Gallagher Law Group, calls Farrah's bashing defamatory.
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Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled.
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St. Jude responded by suing the companies, saying the allegations are defamatory and false.
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Wirecard had at first rejected the FT's reporting as "false, inaccurate, misleading and defamatory".
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He also sued the platform, claiming it allowed defamatory statements against him. http://bit.
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First, what is the most sensationalist, defamatory, exploitative content we can come up with?
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"The accusations made by his lawyer are completely false and defamatory," the statement said.
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Tynes's lawsuit filed Friday in a California court alleges the company's statement was defamatory.
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Bobby has already filed suit, claiming the portrayal as a bad dad is defamatory.
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"Every day, there are millions of posts that are arguably defamatory online," he said.
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Royal said in November that the franceinfo report contained "defamatory remarks" and "false evidence".
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Rather, the court would issue a declaratory judgment finding the statement false and defamatory.
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"The false and defamatory statements published by Defendants of and concerning the Plaintiffs and Alfa, and the implications of those defamatory statements, were made with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard of whether they were true or false," they continued.
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GLAAD classifies the word as defamatory and says it should not be used at all.
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Christine Lepera, an attorney for Dr. Luke, aims to prove that the statement was defamatory.
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" She added: "There have been many defamatory accusations made and I have taken them seriously.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," Mr. Kasowitz wrote to NYT.
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His Twitter account was eventually shuttered in 2013 for posting defamatory things, according to WYFF.
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The letter stated that the publication printed "outrageous and defamatory false claims" about the actress.
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Kardashian's cease and desist demands Bleu's claims are false, defamatory, and injurious to her reputation.
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If calling Richard transgender is not defamatory, the lawsuit is on the shakiest of grounds.
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We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &false tweet by the President.
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Soros fabricated defamatory statements about BSGR's involvement in corruption, the company said in the complaint.
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He says that Twitter bears legal responsibility for any defamatory posts made on its platform.
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Fairstein says she was concerned she would be portrayed in a false and defamatory manner.
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Daniel Michalow filed a complaint against D.E. Shaw over what he says were defamatory comments.
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The additional claim that Daniels filed Monday states that Cohen's denial is a defamatory statement.
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" The letter claims that Drown's allegations are "defamatory and will negatively impact our clients' business.
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The post was later taken down after Chariton cast it as false and defamatory online.
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One potential argument for defense lawyers is a principle called neutral reportage, which defends the publishing of some defamatory material if it is a matter of public interest and "does it in a fair and disinterested manner, without endorsing a defamatory charge," Mr. Abrams said.
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Dr. Luke and his lawyers claimed in a lawsuit that her allegations were false and defamatory.
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A user could hope to state an opinion but fear it could be misconstrued as defamatory.
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Lawsuits are permitted for money damages when the press knowingly or negligently publishes false "defamatory" statements.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Ecuador asked Julian Assange to improve his hygiene.
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"Clearly, each statement that Plaintiff attributes to the Fox Defendants cannot plausibly be defamatory," Batts wrote.
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The president, Comey alleged, had made false and defamatory statements about the FBI and his ouster.
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Facebook, for example, last November resisted calls to remove content flagged as defamatory by the government.
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Musk is now embroiled in a long-running court battle with Unsworth for his defamatory remarks.
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A case could give European courts enormous power to force the worldwide removal of defamatory statements.
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Following Turner's open letter, the Athens Biennale issued a response calling his claims defamatory and false.
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" Carroll's lawsuit, filed in New York state Supreme Court, said his responses were "false" and "defamatory.
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Richard Nixon went so far to leak defamatory and false stories about Board Chairman Arthur Burns.
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Grant him that he believes that Kavanaugh is being railroaded by false and defamatory accusations. Granted.
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Those "vile, vicious and defamatory statements" included accusations that Brown raped her, according to the counterclaim.
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Any suggestion that Mr. Penny was attempting to influence the FBI investigation is false and defamatory.
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Police confirmed to Reuters that they have warned protesters not to bring hazardous or defamatory materials.
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This defamatory lawsuit is not only offensive, it is wholly without merit and will be defended vigorously.
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It is a well-settled principle that one is liable for republishing the defamatory statement of another.
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The video, posted by one Marupakkam Seithigal, was flagged as defamatory by a private company Lebara Foundation.
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The entry must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.
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Articles too numerous to count have leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us.
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A letter sent to the newspaper by Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz called the story 'reckless' and 'defamatory.
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What you don't have the right to do is to lie about her in a defamatory way.
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" The actress calls the claims "completely false and defamatory" and that it has caused her "tremendous harm.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange's mother is, or ever was, a "hippie".
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange has ever tortured a cat or dog.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that WikiLeaks or Julian Assange shared documents with a dictator.
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"The defamatory campaign is so explicit and crude that it will only strengthen us," 5-Star added.
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Consider what happens when websites have different definitions of what constitutes defamatory content, hate speech, or bullying.
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"Defendants' defamatory statements were knowingly false or made with reckless disregard for the truth," one lawsuit said.
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"The Kemp campaign has no case and must immediately retract their defamatory accusations," the Democratic statement said.
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The letter accused her of making "malicious, false and defamatory statements" about Mr. Nygard to her friend.
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Campaigns could advertise increasingly untrue and defamatory claims about each other tied to urgent calls for donations.
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In 2017 an Austrian court ruled Facebook should take the defamatory posts down and do so worldwide.
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This is the day the New York Times came out with a largely false and defamatory piece.
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In the lawsuit, Nunes claims the article's characterization of it being a "politically explosive secret" was defamatory.
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If Showtime airs a defamatory attack on my character, I may very well be involved in another.
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" Montenegro hit back at Ryan later, calling Ryan's allegations "not just false and defamatory, but dangerously so.
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Musk's "pedo guy" tweet is one of three that Unsworth branded as defamatory falsehoods harming his reputation.
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She called the Times's first exposé "largely false and defamatory," before leaving Weinstein's legal team on Saturday.
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" Heard's lawyer, Charles J. Harder, previously said in a statement to PEOPLE: "The Complaint alleges that Stanhope is a close friend of Johnny Depp and, as part of a coordinated effort, wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory and very hurtful statements.
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"There is a subtle, yet fundamental, difference between stating or implying that an accuser's allegations are completely fabricated (and failing to fully disclose the non-defamatory facts underlying this assertion), as in Green, and disputing an accuser's credibility based on fully disclosed non-defamatory facts, as here," Mastroianni wrote.
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" The actress calls the claims "completely false and defamatory" and says that they have caused her "tremendous harm.
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His lawyer, Douglas Jacobs, told the New York Times that the allegations against him were false and defamatory.
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" The actress called the claims "completely false and defamatory" and added that they have caused her "tremendous harm.
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For example, in February 2016, Ms. Germanotta posted multiple articles discussing defendant defamatory statements on her Twitter page.
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The statement said royal aides had fought nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories from appearing in papers.
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Heller sued the film's producers, feeling it was filled with defamatory lies about his dealings with the group.
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Wirecard has rejected the FT reports as defamatory and said earlier on Friday it would sue the newspaper.
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"We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &false tweet by the President," Michael Bromwich tweeted.
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"The interpretation given to these issues is false and defamatory," she said in a statement to the newspaper.
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But, he says, Facebook can be ordered to remove posts that are identical to the original defamatory posts.
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Neither the college nor the dean ever said or wrote anything defamatory about the plaintiffs, the college said.
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The additional claim in the lawsuit that Daniels filed on Monday says Cohen's denial is a defamatory statement.
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Nunes told Breitbart he was planning legal action against CNN and Daily Beast, claiming the allegations were defamatory.
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It was a puzzling choice, abandoning what some experts thought were Musk's most defamatory statements about the plaintiff.
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Trump is certainly entitled to challenge the accuracy of that allegation and to argue that it was defamatory.
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Harder, who is now representing Soto, listed nine allegedly "false and defamatory" passages from Deadspin's coverage of the lawsuit.
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"If Showtime airs a defamatory attack on my character, I may very well be involved in another," Moore added.
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"The Court found opinionated speech by a defendant's attorney is protected and not actionable as defamatory," the attorneys said.
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Reuters has not been able to verify the report which North Korea on Thursday denounced as false and defamatory.
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The allegedly defamatory statements were made during a national political campaign that involved heated political debate in political forums.
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The app's terms of use document bans "inappropriate content," personal contact information, and anything deemed offensive, abusive, or defamatory.
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Under American law, whoever sues a journalist or publication for libel must prove that the defamatory material was false.
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The Network Enforcement Act, colloquially referred to as the "Facebook law," also includes defamatory posts and incitements of violence.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange or WikiLeaks ever employed, or contracted, a holocaust denier.
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In another tweet today Stuchbery describes the remarks are defamatory, adding that he now intends to sue Yaxley-Lennon.
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Carroll says her career has suffered "as a direct direct result of Trump's defamatory statements," according to the lawsuit.
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Mr. Ramos sued the owners of The Capital in 2012, claiming the article that described his behavior was defamatory.
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"We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting & false tweet by the President," he wrote on Twitter.
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Her lawsuit also names his campaign committee as a defendant and calls several comments made by Moore aides defamatory.
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A judge had previously ruled that the book, which accused Pozner of fabricating his son's death certificate, was defamatory.
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As the #MeToo movement has grown, alleged victims and assailants alike have filed suits for defamatory social media postings.
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If someone writes a defamatory tweet, for example, the person being defamed can't sue Twitter for letting it happen.
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" Harder said "The New York Times's allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory.
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A Supreme Court jury in Australia's Victoria state ruled in June that the articles were defamatory, the Associated Press reported.
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He later dropped the suit, citing his limited resources to pursue legal action, but maintained that the dossier was defamatory.
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The organization was founded in response to the defamatory and sensationalized media coverage of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
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Numerous other right-wing sites republished the article verbatim, "further increasing the distribution of the defamatory accusation," the lawsuit states.
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" His lawyer later threatened to sue the newspaper and demanded a retraction, calling the article "reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel.
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Kasowitz previously represented Trump during the presidential campaign, accusing the New York Times of publishing a "defamatory" article in October.
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Thanks to CDA 230, if someone tweets something defamatory about the Church of Scientology, Twitter can't be sued for defamation.
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To wit, Gizmodo cannot be held liable for some harebrained reader posting a defamatory remark in the comment section below.
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RS then ran a headline saying Charlamagne made transphobic comments, which Charlamagne called defamatory since he never made such remarks.
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In December, Cosby countersued, saying the women made "malicious, opportunistic, and false and defamatory accusations" against him for monetary gain.
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We're told the soccer star views Lennard's allegations as "false and defamatory" and his lawyers are already handling the situation.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange has ever walked into embassy meeting rooms in his underwear.
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Harder has said Weinstein will sue the Times over "false and defamatory statements" in the report, per the Hollywood Reporter.
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" The suit filed in Virginia accuses Twitter of "knowingly hosting and monetizing content that is clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory.
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Kelly ran through Jones's most damaging conspiracy theories, including Sandy Hook and his defamatory accusations against the yogurt company Chobani.
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Last week, Anthony filed a motion for a summary judgment against Kronk, arguing that her attorneys' comments were not defamatory.
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EU which had ties to Cambridge Analytica, wrote to Netflix with concerns about "false and defamatory allegations" in the film.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange does not use cutlery or does not wash his hands.
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Notably, his lawyers called the Times article "libel per se," which means that it is false and defamatory in nature.
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" Trump said of Carroll that he "never met this person" -- responses the lawsuit filed Monday says were "false" and "defamatory.
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"The New York Times's allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory," Mr. Harder said.
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Phillippe says not only is she lying, he says her claims are defamatory, although he is not countersuing for defamation.
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Officially, he was fired for alleged misuse of company funds and failure to prevent defamatory blog posts by an employee.
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As a lawyer, I'd argue that the allegation by Hannity that Kimmel is Harvey Weinstein is defamatory on its face.
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Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media.
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Under China's internet rules, users who spread rumours or make defamatory comments can be arrested or even sent to jail.
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Slanderous remarks are spoken while libelous remarks are written and published (which means defamatory tweets could be considered libelous, not slanderous).
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The letter from her lawyer sent to the press for no legitimate reason – is outrageous, defamatory and misleading in the extreme.
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Now, MillerCoors is taking the feud one step further, suing Anheuser-Busch for attempting to profit off of the defamatory commercials.
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The ministry accused Rogozin of making defamatory remarks about a Moldovan governmental delegation in an interview with a Russian television channel.
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In its lawsuit, St. Jude said the accusations were defamatory and that its devices have numerous features that protect against cyberattacks.
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The businessman's lawyer says the information was wrong, the article was defamatory and that his client wants to clear his name.
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" In her defamation suit, Heard called the claims "completely false and defamatory" and said that it has caused her "tremendous harm.
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According to the legal filing, KFC found 4,000 "defamatory messages" on the chat service that were read more than 100,19603 times.
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JRE adds the show is filled with defamatory scenes about Jenni and her 5 children ... although it doesn't specify any scenes.
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Google will generally de-index pages if it receives a credible report that the page contains pirated content or defamatory statements.
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The letter from her lawyer -sent to the press for no legitimate reason – is outrageous, defamatory and misleading in the extreme.
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According to Kronk, Anthony directed her attorneys to make defamatory statements that implied that he was responsible for the toddler's death.
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The letter from her lawyer — sent to the press for no legitimate reason — is outrageous, defamatory and misleading in the extreme.
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Notably, a measure of damages for a defamation claim is how much one's reputation has been diminished by the defamatory allegation.
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One of their planned events on Capitol Hill, for instance, will raise defamatory questions about the mental health of President Trump.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that WikiLeaks or Julian Assange is tied to, or is close to, the Kremlin.
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The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) called a petition she started against naturopathic expansion "defamatory and libelous" in a Change.
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Any claim of wrongdoing of any kind or of mistreatment of any woman by him is false, ill-motived and defamatory.
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Mr. McCabe's lawyer called those comments "vile and defamatory" and said they were intended to put pressure on the Justice Department.
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"We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting & false tweet by the President," said the lawyer, Michael R. Bromwich.
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A Wisconsin judge ruled that it was defamatory to publish a book that said Leonard Pozner faked his son's death certificate.
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" In a statement announcing the suit, Trump campaign senior legal advisor Jenna Ellis called that claim "100 percent false and defamatory.
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While applying filters to block defamatory speech could lead to — for example — inadvertently blocking lawful reactions that quote the unlawful speech.
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"The statements were and are 100 percent false and defamatory," Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for the campaign, said in a statement.
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Furthermore, the lawmakers questioned whether some fired employees faced "defamatory statements" from the bank if they criticized its aggressive sales tactics.
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Last month, Germany approved a bill that would hold social media platforms responsible for hosting hate speech or defamatory fake news.
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Then this November, Baldwin sued Cieszkowski, arguing that Cieszkowski lied to police about the encounter and made defamatory statements about him.
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" The aides said that Mr. Fairfax was considering "appropriate legal action against those attempting to spread this defamatory and false allegation.
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The letter calls it "unacceptable" for Gianforte or members of his campaign to make "false or defamatory statements" about the assault.
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" The aides said that Mr. Fairfax is considering "appropriate legal action against those attempting to spread this defamatory and false allegation.
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But Legacy says Flair's allegations are "baseless and defamatory" -- and they're respectfully BLASTING the guy in a statement to TMZ Sports.
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Instead, the letter said the district sued the anonymous parent, "Jane Doe," for spreading what they called "defamatory statements" about the school.
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"In addition, she also spread a knowingly false and wholly defamatory accusation that Gottwald had raped another female recording artist," he says.
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The Computer Crime Act, as it relates to lese majeste, makes it illegal to post defamatory or insulting statements toward the crown.
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Moreover, it is defamatory to state that I have harassed or engaged in cyber bullying when I also in fact have not.
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Bauer did not appeal the verdict that the articles were defamatory, but argued the Australian-record damages awarded in September were excessive.
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Within hours of her death, the white supremacist site The Daily Stormer posted a defamatory blog attacking Heyer and praising her killer.
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Anyone who circulates this story is doing so with complete rejection of the facts, malice, and is doing so with defamatory intentions.
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Background: Daniels sued the president for what her legal team described as "irresponsible and defamatory statements" he made about her on Twitter.
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Before filing suit, Harder put the Daily Mail, Tarpley and other news organization on notice that the articles about her were defamatory.
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A spokesman said Joyce believed the claim to be "spurious and defamatory" and had asked for it to be referred to police.
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Mr. Asher has retained legal counsel and is demanding SCBWI and Lin Oliver promptly retract the false and defamatory statements they made.
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Attorney Michael Bowe says in emails to The Associated Press on Saturday night and Sunday that the allegation is false and defamatory.
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If the expression is "defamatory" or actionable under law, the author can be prosecuted or punished in a criminal or civil proceeding.
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"If people put out false and defamatory statements and outright lies about your business, you can stand up for yourself," he says.
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The Hyundai Elantra is no longer a cheap car in the traditional defamatory meaning of the term — inexpensive, poor materials, flimsily made.
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It's human nature, in and out of politics, not to want to offend people with comments that are inflammatory, defamatory or incendiary.
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Online publisher WikiLeaks has reportedly instructed media organizations not to report what it calls "false and defamatory" statements about founder Julian Assange.
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The head of Turkey's Diyanet religious authority, Mehmet Gormez, has denied its imams engaged in illegal activities and called such allegations defamatory.
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The American legal system gives journalists and publications extraordinarily broad leeway when publishing allegations that may be considered defamatory by the subject.
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"If Showtime airs a defamatory attack on my character, I may very well be involved in another," Moore said in a statement.
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He must establish that it is a publication to persons other than himself; that identifies him; and that is defamatory of him.
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Carroll's lawsuit asks Trump to "retract any and all defamatory statements" and pay damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
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The case concerned a San Francisco lawyer, Dawn Hassell, who had accused a client of posting defamatory statements against her on Yelp.
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A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the posts were defamatory and instructed the client and Yelp to take them down.
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A legal battle commences and Marco appears to succeed in suppressing the defamatory statement that would otherwise have destroyed his good name.
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"These defamatory utterances are untrue and damaging to the morale of the national team and USAT staff and coaches," their report said.
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The campaign argues that statement was "defamatory" because no Trump associate has made a statement inviting assistance from Russia or North Korea.
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"The statements were and are 100 percent false and defamatory," Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser for the campaign, said in a statement.
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This week, ABC is being taken to trial in a multibillion dollar lawsuit by the plant arguing that the story was defamatory.
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Trump's lawyer is threatening legal action against former WH Chief Strategist Steve Bannon for "disparaging" and "outright defamatory" statements in a book.
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The settlement includes an agreement that mandates Stone run ads in newspapers apologizing for making defamatory statements about Chinese businessman Guo Wengui.
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Several booksellers received reams of missives, some hand-delivered, which advised that suggesting Mr Low was guilty of fraud was "outrageously defamatory".
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After the incident and arrest, the Knicks and Dolan made a number of statements the lawsuit says are defamatory, libelous and slanderous.
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" In his letter, Harder requested that O'Donnell and NBCUniversal "immediately and prominently retract, correct and apologize for the … false and defamatory statements.
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" The Guardian wrote that "Facebook's external lawyers warned the Observer it was making 'false and defamatory' allegations, and reserved Facebook's legal position.
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The singer filed a $15 million defamation lawsuit against him in February, saying he's made "numerous false and defamatory statements" about her.
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" A lawyer for Professor Spunt, Carmen Jack Giordano, said the allegations were "vicious and defamatory" and that his client was "completely innocent.
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Pugh says Osbourne's accusation that she committed elder abuse is not only wrong -- but defamatory -- and caused her all sorts of problems.
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He's not the first to think of this: Punishing journalists by accusing them of being "defamatory" is a classic tactic of repressive regimes.
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Parent was sued for 'defamatory statements' Eucker followed up with a letter to parents in February, disputing many of the anonymous parent's claims.
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Most recently, password manager maker Keeper sued a security reporter claiming allegedly defamatory remarks over a security flaw in one of its products.
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Bytedance and Tencent later swapped accusations of tolerating smear campaigns against the other on their apps, and filed police reports about defamatory posts.
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" Later that day, one of his attorneys announced that Weinstein planned to sue the newspaper for the story, which the attorney called "defamatory.
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According to court documents, the now 17-year-old alleged the Post's coverage included 33 defamatory statements in seven articles and three tweets.
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"What better court to hear a defamation case of a born-and-bred New Yorker who made defamatory statements in Midtown " Wang responded.
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China Hongqiao has called the reports defamatory and in December obtained an injunction from a Hong Kong court to restrict reports by Emerson.
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But even if a comment did cross the defamatory threshold, under Section 2230, neither Shapiro nor the Daily Wire could be held liable.
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Put differently, the civil justice system had created a financial incentive for online businesses to ignore anything illegal or defamatory posted by users.
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Bauer did not, however, appeal the verdict that the articles were defamatory, but argued the Australian-record damages awarded in September were excessive.
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"Calling Dickinson a liar is a defamatory statement under the law ... and that's the mistake Bill Cosby made," Bloom said at the time.
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The lawsuit claims that Future "has published numerous false and defamatory statements" about Ciara that contain "several misrepresentations" about her conduct and character.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that WikiLeaks or Julian Assange has ever published, uttered or tried to promote a "conspiracy theory".
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If other Uber employees (or former employees) spread defamatory rumors, there would be no basis to charge Mr. Michael with making those statements.
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"When someone issues a false and defamatory report in the name of the U.N., it is appropriate that the person resign," Haley said.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," Marc E. Kasowitz, Mr. Trump's lawyer, wrote in a letter to The Times.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange lives, or has ever lived, in a basement, cupboard or under the stairs.
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The panel, in the decision last month, also ordered the bank to retract his termination and expunge his regulatory record of defamatory comments.
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The authorities have detained citizen journalists, aggressively censored news reports and social media outlets, and expelled foreign reporters whose coverage was deemed defamatory.
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The Windsors did nothing to protect her from the tidal wave of defamatory distortions and outright lies flowing nonstop from these loathsome rags.
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And the less context you put in your communication, the more likely it is that a judge is going to say it's defamatory.
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"The statements were and are 100 percent false and defamatory," Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, said in a statement.
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However Glawischnig also wanted it to remove similar posts, not just identical reposts of the illegal speech, which she argued were equally defamatory.
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To utter such garbage, which you know to be false and defamatory, goes against all the training and teaching you must have received.
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"The New York Times' allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory," Harder said, according to the paper.
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"The New York Times' allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 2177.3 percent false, and highly defamatory," Harder said, according to the paper.
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In a statement to media, Anwar said he was grateful to police for speeding up investigations into the "latest defamatory allegations" against him.
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Musk referred to Unsworth as a "pedo guy" in a tweet he later deleted — Unsworth claims this was a defamatory statement against him.
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Photo: GettyGermany's highest court on Tuesday ruled that Google has no obligation to check websites for defamatory content before including them in search results.
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" The suit also says the article itself was published verbatim by numerous other right-wing websites, "further increasing the distribution of the defamatory accusation.
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He uses the cease and desist letter to talk about issues with people filing notices over videos that they regard as defamatory, but aren't.
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The company's statement inaccurately portrays the circumstances surrounding my departure, and includes baseless and defamatory statements about me and my contributions to the company.
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Following the fire, 50 Cent in turn sued Tompkins for making defamatory statement, including that he tried to kill her by setting the fire.
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Jussie Smollett's lawyers say the Osundairo brothers misquoted alleged defamatory statements they thought his team made, but turns out ... their own attorney said 'em.
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However, in regards to the remarks that my client's allegations are 'defamatory,' such allegations do not constitute defamation if they are, in fact, true.
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This demand also duty [sic] to preserve all documents that refer or relate in any way to Mr. Harder and/or the Defamatory Statement.
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Courts have long ruled that misidentifying someone's race is not defamatory, and Keosian argued that the transgender classification should operate in the same way.
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Bobby claimed the portrayal of him as a bad dad was defamatory, and Bobbi Kristina's estate claimed the show violated her right to privacy.
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"I posted an article on August 2, 2016 about Melania Trump that was replete with false and defamatory statements about her," Tarpley's statement says.
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However, now that Queermuseu has reopened, some say that the defamatory claims brought on by far-right groups don't hold up in real life.
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" In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Arpaio says the piece contains "several false, defamatory factual assertions.
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Hastie made the claims in federal parliament, under the protection of parliamentary privilege, which allows politicians to make potentially defamatory comments with legal immunity.
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"Everybody knows I lost money after those maliciously defamatory articles were printed about me...clearly not fair," she said in a series of tweets.
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Australian billionaire, political donor, and political party leader Clive Palmer is threatening to sue an Australian YouTuber over what he says are defamatory statements.
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Following the fire, 50 Cent, in turn, sued Tompkins for making defamatory statements, including that he tried to kill her by setting the fire.
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Last month, the Constitutional Court struck down a proposal to ban defamation charges in cases where the supposedly defamatory comment circulated online is true.
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Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) has filed suit against President Trump for "irresponsible and defamatory statements," her attorney Michael Avenatti said Monday.
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An Austrian court agreed with Glawischnig that hate speech posts made about her on Facebook were defamatory and ordered the company to remove them.
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His statement said Kwatinetz had orchestrated a "malicious defamatory campaign" against him and accused the league of having a hostile and racist work environment.
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He's also sued Twitter, which is headquartered in San Francisco, in Virginia for allegedly allowing users to spread "false and defamatory statements" about him.
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You had plans to open a restaurant in Donald Trump's Washington hotel but canceled them in 2015 after he made defamatory comments about Mexicans.
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McConnell's understudy, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, has even joined in the latest anti-Trump defamatory wheeze: that the president might be mentally unbalanced.
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Because of that, Don faced many lawsuits and accusations of defamatory speech, and had a well-known rivalry with fellow "shock jock" Howard Stern.
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"Defendants' defamatory publications were designed to harm the Plaintiffs' reputation and subject the Plaintiffs to public contempt, disgrace, ridicule, or attack," the lawsuits allege.
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Hence, holding the admin liable for member-posted content is equivalent to holding the 'manufacturer of the newsprint' liable for defamatory statements in the newspaper.
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Prosecutors said Thanat made defamatory comments against the monarchy during a 2013 speech to 'red shirt' activists at a political rally in the capital, Bangkok.
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In it, he claimed Diet Madison Avenue's defamatory statements led to his wrongful termination from the agency, which is part of holding company MDC Partners.
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Wirecard issued a statement dismissing the FT story as "inaccurate, misleading and defamatory", using similar language to its denial of an earlier report on Wednesday.
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The letter to FX demands that the network make all of the episodes available for review, suggesting that even the implication of complicity is defamatory.
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Blakely also sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Daniels and Avenatti stop "making any further false and defamatory statements" about his client Cohen.
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Trump will not be able to meet her high burden of proving the statements published about her on my website were defamatory in any way.
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The court ruled that these emails did not contain any defamatory information or false information, but rather factually accurate information about her and Shivers' situation.
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Across the US, dozens of lawsuits have been filed in order to remove defamatory material from review sites such as Yelp, or Google's search results.
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Journalist Emma Best published the full WikiLeaks email on her blog, and the so-called "defamatory falsehoods" contained therein are quite a thing to behold.
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"The defendants defamatory statements were designed to cause — and did in fact cause — customers to call for a boycott of Chobani's products," the lawsuit stated.
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Also on Tuesday, Singapore police said in a statement they are investigating a local blog, The Online Citizen, in relation to an allegedly defamatory article.
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Two of the women claimed they were fired from their jobs because of the defamatory statement made by the train company, according to the complaint.
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Photo: Carl Court (Getty)This weekend, WikiLeaks reportedly sent journalists a "confidential" list of 140 "false and defamatory" things not to write about the organization.
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"Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media," Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon.
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Dershowitz filed a lengthy rebuttal to her original lawsuit on Thursday, denying that he made any defamatory statements about her and accusing Giuffre of defamation.
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Schmitz on Tuesday said he has never made anti-Semitic remarks and blamed Crane as the source of "completely false and defamatory" rumors about him.
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Further, the campaign, through counsel, sent a written demand to CNN on February 25, 2020 to retract and apologize for the false and defamatory statements.
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He has the opportunity to apologize to me for the defamatory comments, and if he does, then there will be no reason to sue him.
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The new part is that this is a case being brought against a mostly anonymous group who created an anonymous list containing potentially defamatory statements.
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Luke" Gottwald assaulted Katy Perry was defamatory, that "publication of a false statement to even one person, here Lady Gaga, is sufficient to impose liability.
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Or if you were lucky enough to have a national platform of your own, maybe you would try to correct the defamatory statement in public.
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Post a defamatory statement or a bullying message or an obscene image on Facebook, and Facebook isn't legally responsible — instead, the responsibility lies with you.
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"The claim that Representative Hill has Nazi imagery on her body in the form of a tattoo is false and defamatory," Elias and Jacobs said.
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" We reached out to Brown's attorney, Darren Heitner, for comment on the new docs ... and he told us, "There was simply no defamatory statement made.
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However, Ramirez's own admitted memory gaps, drinking and inability to characterize Kavanaugh's role definitively make this story appear questionable at best, deliberately defamatory at worst.
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This earned Dr Pyne an e-mail from the university's human-resources department on June 15th, threatening him with disciplinary action for "defamatory language and accusations".
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The decision comes as a result of a case brought forward by two people trying to hold Google accountable for linking to defamatory websites, Reuters reported.
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They stated that comments must not be defamatory, obscene, threatening, or abusive; be discriminatory in any way; be "off-topic, irrelevant or unintelligible" or contain advertising.
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But the case Harder is petitioning to the Supreme Court — centering on a Yelp review that Harder claims to be defamatory — could muddy those publisher protections.
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Her contract stated the show "may reveal or relate information about me of a personal, private, surprising, defamatory, disparaging, embarrassing or unfavorable nature," the document says.
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"Your app includes content that could be considered defamatory or mean-spirited," Apple's App Store Review team said in an email posted on Medium by Gab.
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Old Mutual said in its letter that these claims were "incorrect and defamatory" and that it was confident that the matters raised were appropriately dealt with.
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They are seeking punitive and other damages as well as a court order that Al Jazeera retract false and defamatory statements, according to the court filing.
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The London-based FT has published a series of reports alleging fraud and creative accounting at Wirecard, which the Munich-based firm has rejected as defamatory.
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The judge in the case decided the statements made by Cosby and his team were opinions and generalizations about all the accusers ... and therefore, not defamatory.
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TMZ broke the story ... Mariah's team has accused DCP of sabotaging her performance with a bum earpiece to win bigger ratings ... something DCP claims is defamatory.
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Major aspects of these relentless, aggressive, tenacious and defamatory attacks against Biden by Trump and his ethically discredited henchmen are now under criminal and impeachment investigation.
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Unsworth's lawyer, L. Lin Wood, later wrote a letter to Musk in August that threatened a possible lawsuit for "false and defamatory statements," Buzzfeed News reported.
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Deliberately fake content, copied or stolen photos, off-topic reviews, defamatory language, personal attacks, and unnecessary or incorrect content are all in violation of our policy.
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" He scapegoated the vulnerable and evinced a particular animosity toward journalists, whom he lambasted for "sowing confusion by means of obviously defamatory distortion of the facts.
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"An accused person cannot be foreclosed ... from considering the issuance of a simple and unequivocal denial — free from overall defamatory triggers or contextual themes," Mastroianni wrote.
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"Critically, the sources of the underlying plaintiffs' injuries are the allegedly defamatory statements issued by Cosby or his agents, not the sexual misconduct itself," he wrote.
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The same defamatory statements, with the exact same misleading and deceiving accusations, have been refuted and negated time and time again for the past two years.
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" And an attorney for the president, Charles Harder, had previously dismissed a report of the president committing tax fraud as "100 percent false, and highly defamatory.
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"Without the aid of counsel, a criminal defendant will almost certainly plead guilty or be convicted at trial, regardless of whether their speech was actually defamatory."
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The company notes submissions can be rejected if they include discriminatory language, critical or spiteful comments on other reviews, allegations of illegal activity or defamatory content.
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Australia Post said this week, after the reports of hateful campaign materials, that its employees could refuse to deliver mail that they deemed defamatory or offensive.
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While Senator Blackburn fires off defamatory tweets, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman will continue to do what he has always done: serve our country dutifully and with honor.
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Unlike some other platforms, Workplace asks users to sign up to an "acceptable use policy" which prohibits creating content that is "harmful" or "deceptive or defamatory".
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Weinstein's new attorney Charles J. Harder called the story "false and defamatory" and promised to donate all proceeds of the lawsuit, if successful, to women's organizations.
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In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Drown, Boudet's lawyer demands that Drown "retract all defamatory statements" related to "false and fabricated" allegations against Boudet.
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The defamatory messages, in Turkish, accused Germany and the Netherlands of having Nazi ties, and they linked to a video of a speech by Mr. Erdogan.
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Defendants' defamatory statements were knowingly false or made with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the statements at the time the statements were made.
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Cosby countersued the women in 2015, claiming that the women made "malicious, opportunistic, and false and defamatory accusations of sexual misconduct against" him, among other claims.
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"They're silly, small in number, poorly researched and often defamatory," Allison Riggs, a lawyer for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, said of the Republican challenges.
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The London-based FT has published a series of reports alleging fraud and creative accounting at Wirecard, which the Munich-based firm has rejected as defamatory.
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They wrote that the school had gone so far as to file a lawsuit against "Jane Doe" for spreading what they called "defamatory statements" about the school.
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"Companies should be compelled to treat identifying and combating bots and disinformation as a "duty," he says, facing "consequences" if they "continue to propagate truly defamatory content.
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Eight posters featuring Rapinoe in her US Women's National Team jersey included homophobic and defamatory slurs along with the phrase "screw this h--," the NYPD told CNN.
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In response to Monday's filing, Unsworth's attorney said Musk was attacking his client because he could not dispute the fact that the accusations are false and defamatory.
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Ted and Julie Sandmann are seeking $250 million in damages on behalf of their 16-year-old son, alleging the Post published seven "false and defamatory" stories.
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TeamBlind said it does reviews posts and has removed some that violated its terms of use, including publishing statements that might be defamatory or breach individuals' privacy.
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The airline's executives at the time called the report both "offensive and defamatory" while promoting a "false narrative" that the company does not comply with FAA standards.
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"For Yelp or any other social media platform to refuse to obey a Court Order to remove a defamatory post from its platform is outrageous," Harder said.
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And people might lie when answering some of the lewder or defamatory questions, like whether they've ever peed in the shower or stolen money from their grandparents.
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We believe Scott will be fully vindicated when this matter actually concludes, and Ms. Eggert will then be held fully accountable for her untrue and defamatory claims.
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Otero said that the alleged defamatory tweet was simply "'rhetorical hyperbole' normally associated with politics and public discourse," and that it was protected by the First Amendment.
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In New York, Guo faces a defamation lawsuit from the HNA Group, which said Guo had injured HNA's "business reputation arising from repeated false and defamatory statements".
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"You are now on notice of the highly defamatory content of the subject book," according the letter, which was first published by noted Scientology reporter Tony Ortega.
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This raises the question of whether Twitter and other online platforms should do more to stop false and defamatory information from going viral in the first place.
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Some things that journalists aren't supposed to say about Assange, according to the list released by WikiLeaks:It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange stinks.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange has ever played soccer or used a skateboard during week days or office hours at the embassy.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian opposition leader is being investigated for alleged defamatory remarks about the Election Commission and police, state news agency Bernama reported on Saturday.
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In March, Bromwich said that he was not going to take the time to respond to every "childish, defamatory, disgusting and false" tweet from Trump about McCabe.
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The letter, which was obtained by The New York Times, lists 19 "false and defamatory" statements in the article, many of which were taken from two lawsuits.
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"As pressure mounted from pending defamation lawsuits and growing public indignation, Mr. Jones chose to destroy evidence of his actual malice and defamatory conduct," the motion stated.
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In 2017, she was awarded $2.9 million dollars by the Daily Mail after she filed a lawsuit charging the publication made false and defamatory statements about her.
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The prince also claims that the media has persisted in seeking out defamatory stories, and resorted to offering bribes to those who might have information about Markle.
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The lawsuit by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump's reality show "The Apprentice," contends that Trump's denials of her accusations amounted to false and defamatory statements.
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Whitenicious founder Dencia just made good on her threats she'd sue LisaRaye McCoy for what she's calling defamatory comments about her skin care line ... TMZ has learned.
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The claim activated his audience, prompting people to boycott Chobani products, and the company is now suing Jones for what it says are "false" and "defamatory" reports.
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Fairstein alleges in the federal suit, which was filed Wednesday in Florida, that nearly every scene of the series with scenes about her were false and defamatory.
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"It's an untested area, and I think it would be an open question as to whether or not it's capable of a defamatory meaning," Ms. Barbas said.
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Yelp – The online review website operator cannot be forced to remove posts regarding a San Francisco law firm even though a judge said the posts were defamatory.
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If a text was defamatory, treasonable, or otherwise represented a crime or civil wrong, a prosecuting attorney could insist that the media outlet reveal the author's name.
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Weinstein's new attorney Charles J. Harder called the the story "false and defamatory" and promised to donate all proceeds of the lawsuit, if successful, to women's organizations.
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Shortly after Gillis' hire was announced last week, his past defamatory comments about Chinese Americans and homosexuals made during a podcast surfaced, prompting the comic to apologize.
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It noted that his office had regularly fought to keep defamatory articles out of the newspapers — which he said had offered large bribes to her ex-boyfriend.
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" He adds, "Mayor Andrew Gillum and the Gillum for Governor Campaign will take all available legal recourse to prevent the spread of the false and defamatory Advertisement.
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He said Mr. Trump's denials that he had ever met Ms. Zervos at a hotel or made sexual advances on her were factual statements — not defamatory slurs.
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But her bill goes beyond the European standard of being "de-indexed" from search engines, and argues that defamatory content should be suppressed from the web altogether.
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Ten states, including Kansas, passed laws giving students independent control, although administrators can still remove material that is obscene, defamatory or poses a danger to the school.
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"I hereby demand that you and your client cease and desist from making any further false and defamatory statements about my client, that you immediately retract and apologize to Mr. Cohen through the national media for your defamatory statements on '60 Minutes,' and make clear that you have no facts or evidence whatsoever to support your allegations that my client had anything whatsoever to do with this alleged thug," Blakely wrote.
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Oakley, 53, accused Dolan of treating him like a "common criminal" by ordering his removal from the game, and launching a "coordinated and defamatory" public campaign against him.
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"Contrary to her latest defamatory press statement, the evidence, including sworn testimony, will show the full extent and scope of the scurrilous falsehoods Kesha spread," the statement read.
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In June a judge decided that Yelp, a site for crowdsourced reviews, cannot challenge a court order to remove a defamatory review of a lawyer by a client.
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In response, ByteDance filed a lawsuit against Huxiu, saying that the Chinese news site made defamatory statements against it in translating an op-ed by contributor Elliott Zaagman.
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A lawyer for Mr Trump called them "100% false and highly defamatory", also saying that Mr Trump had "virtually no involvement" in shaping the family's past tax strategies.
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Davis said Tuesday that he was releasing the recording in part to defend Cohen from what he characterized as defamatory remarks made by Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
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While Trump never called Zervos a liar directly, Wang said that he referred to her by implication, adding that defamatory comments are not protected by the First Amendment.
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Prodigy, a 21990 case where the investment firm now immortalized in the film The Wolf of Wall Street sued Prodigy over message board posts it claimed were defamatory.
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Germany also has approved a new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news.
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" Fabiani called the printed information to be "out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O'Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace.
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More than just accounting for his rise, the profit motive in the digital media game has made it easier than ever before to spread false or defamatory information.
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Jerry Heller has already made it clear ... "Straight Outta Compton" is defamatory, but if it gets an Oscar nod it will bring his rage to a new level.
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The rules for the European Parliament ban defamatory, racist and xenophobic language or behavior, so Tajani is now investigating if Korwin-Mikke broke the rules with his remarks.
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The GOP debates turned into a sideshow within a freak show, with insults hurled from Trump toward other GOP candidates that were infantile and, at times, arguably defamatory.
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Now, Edward Ivari, the owner of the company, had a letter sent to Gawker on his behalf calling the story "false and defamatory" and an invasion of privacy.
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A Gawker investigation on Trump's hair inflicted emotional distress Gawker notes how the "defamatory" statements in question are actually culled from Ivari's own marketing materials and public records.
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That means harassers won't be able to just scrawl out threatening or defamatory notes and then post a photo of them to bypass Instagram's text filters for bullying.
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A Michigan air conditioning company has sued a local woman for $25,000 after she left a negative Yelp review about the business that the company says is defamatory.
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An air conditioning company in Michigan is suing a local woman for $25,000 in damages after she left a bad Yelp review that the company says is defamatory.
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The lawsuit alleged that the editorial, which the Times eventually corrected, was defamatory, and that the paper never published a "full and fair retraction" or a public apology.
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"The internet has the potential not only to enlighten but to spread lies, amplifying defamatory communications to an extent unmatched in our history," Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar wrote.
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The newspaper's letter labeled this account "false and defamatory," and noted that the 1997 Vanity Fair article on which the film was based never alluded to its happening.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer is threatening legal action against former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon for making "disparaging" and "outright defamatory" statements in a new book.
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Lawyers for the social network insisted that it had removed any images flagged as defamatory, and that it was up to users to inform them of such material.
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The claim has activated his audience, prompting people to boycott Chobani products, and the company is now suing Jones for what it says are "false" and "defamatory" reports.
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Around the same time, it faced legal trouble for the exact opposite reason, as far-right science fiction author Vox Day sued Gab over content he claimed was defamatory.
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Under the new guidelines, a Marine who posts online commentary and content that is defamatory, threatening, harassing or discriminatory can be punished at the discretion of a military court.
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The case was brought last year by Austria's Green party over what it argued were defamatory insults to its leader, Eva Glawischnig, posted to Facebook by a fake account.
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Roy Moore says he was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen for his new CBS/Showtime series & threatens legal action "If Showtime airs a defamatory attack on my character..." pic.twitter.
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And the California Supreme Court ruled that Yelp couldn't be required to take down a defamatory user post, a decision that the US Supreme Court left standing in January.
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Behind each debunk is a defamatory image and false allegation, not to mention the time spent by a reporter tasked with batting down what often amount to sinister pranks.
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"To suggest that [Dick Clark Productions] … would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd," the company said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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Judge Frank D. Remington of Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court ruled in June that the statements by Fetzer were defamatory, and the case went to trial to determine damages.
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And soon after that, Traywick sued Gizmodo and a biohacker, Josiah Zayner, for libel, claiming that they had made false and defamatory statements about the company and its research.
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Jacobus argued the tweets were defamatory because they implied she made the comments on CNN as revenge for being turned down for a job, which she said wasn't true.
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In a letter obtained and shared by The Hollywood Reporter, Ariadne Getty's lawyer Martin Singer claims the series is "a cruel and mean-spirited defamatory depiction" of the family.
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"Your article is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," attorney Marc E. Kasowitz wrote in a letter to Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times.
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That's the section where Apple says: Any App that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harm's way will be rejected.
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In one of the live streams recorded outside Stuchbery's home, Yaxley-Lennon can also be heard making allegations about Stuchbery's sexual interests that the journalist has described as defamatory.
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" Another attorney of Weinstein, Charles J. Harder, announced Thursday they're preparing to sue the NYT, accusing the article of being "saturated with false and defamatory statements about Harvey Weinstein.
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The FT has published a series of reports alleging fraud and creative accounting at Wirecard, which it has rejected as defamatory, saying it would sue the London-based newspaper.
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The FT has published a series of reports alleging fraud and creative accounting at Wirecard, which the Germany company has rejected as defamatory, saying it would sue the newspaper.
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Patterson sued ESPN claiming the network's 2017 story about a "courtroom escape attempt" was false and defamatory ... and he wants them to pay up BIG to make things right.
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The protection can shield sites like Yelp, for instance, from libel suits when a reviewer posts defamatory comments or YouTube from copyright liability when a user uploads copyrighted content.
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Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved a new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news.
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KFC China brought the suit against the firms in June last year for using ten accounts on Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular messaging platform WeChat to spread the defamatory posts.
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Datsik obviously feels wronged by Emelianenko—so much so that he submitted his defamatory diatribe to the Moscow courts to prevent his foe from being released from prison himself.
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The Sunday email to reporters also listed as "false and defamatory" claims that Assange has poor personal hygiene, has ever neglected an animal and that he bleaches his hair.
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I will vigorously defend myself against these false and defamatory allegations, and I will seek all relief available to me under the settlement agreement against her and her attorneys.
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Emmanuel Macron, French president, has railed against the "defamatory untruths" and "deceitful propaganda" of Kremlin-backed media organisations such as RT and Sputnik, which both have French-language websites.
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North Wind's complaint accuses Agostino of publishing "false and defamatory statements" about the company that have harmed its reputation and cost the company at least six customers per day.
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Does it seem likely that the Russians are the only ones who will ever try to hack an election by trolling, phishing and the intentional dissemination of defamatory propaganda?
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And nothing more bedevils lawyers and editors than claims for "libel by implication" — when the facts may be right but a plaintiff says that the story implied something defamatory.
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Trump's lawyers wrote to NBC Wednesday to demand a retraction, correction and apology for him what they called a "false and defamatory" statement, per Washington Post journalist Paul Farhi.
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In yet another tabloid-baiting subplot, lawyers for Dr. Luke are demanding a deposition from Lady Gaga, whom they say received defamatory text messages about the producer from Kesha.
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Hans von Spakovsky, a member of President Trump's voter fraud commission, on Wednesday blasted critics he said had launched "vicious and defamatory attacks" against the panel and its members.
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But as Engadget notes, that law may not apply to defamatory comments, and US companies are required under the Hague Convention to provide information when requested by foreign courts.
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They had said Trump made his alleged defamatory statements in Washington, D.C., his home since becoming president in January 2017, and therefore could not be sued in New York.
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The government has accompanied the bill with a defamatory attack on the university, claiming that it "cheats" by awarding both American and Hungarian diplomas and thus violates Hungarian law.
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" Luciano Bergamin, a bishop in Rio de Janeiro, conceded that the issue "probably exists," but said it was motivated by a profit-driven and "defamatory campaign against the church.
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" His lawyer, attorney Mark A. Neubauer, has called Thomas' claims as well as assault allegations made by Melissa Kester and assault allegations made by a fifth, unnamed woman, "defamatory falsehoods.
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"For Yelp or any other social media platform to refuse to obey a Court Order to remove a defamatory post from its platform is outrageous," said Harder, in the statement.
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Online harassment and intimidation, including defamatory accusations, slurs, and even the publication of journalists' phone numbers and home addresses to rile up angry readers have become par for the course.
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Judge Frank D. Remington of the Dane County Circuit Court in Wisconsin signed an order on Tuesday finding that the statements published by the two men were in fact defamatory.
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" He told Simonson&aposs colleague, Peter Hasson, in an email that he would sue his colleagues and the publication for defamation if they didn't stop writing "lies and defamatory statements.
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In his rulings, the judge found that a November 2014 statement from Cosby's lawyer calling the allegations "unsubstantiated, fantastical stories" could be reasonably seen as factual, and therefore potentially defamatory.
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The former Tesla employee who was sued for allegedly hacking and leaking trade secrets has filed a counterclaim against the company over potentially defamatory comments made by CEO Elon Musk.
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Priebus also said he would not intervene in the conflict between GOP front-runner Donald Trump and rival Ted Cruz over pro-Cruz ads Trump has accused of being defamatory.
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Rolling Stone's attorney, Scott Sexton, argued that because Eramo was a public figure, the article could not be defamatory unless she could prove that they were made with actual malice.
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While it's common practice for tabloids to use "anonymous sources" for cover stories, it's safe to say most celebrities brush it off (at least publicly) unless the story is defamatory.
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According to her complaint filed on Monday — which has been reviewed by PEOPLE — Carroll's attorneys said Trump's statements that he didn't know her and hadn't assaulted her were both defamatory.
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Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made.
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"I sincerely hope when this occurs that the grotesque, defamatory media campaign which I have endured for years now will finally come to its long-overdue end," Stone told Reuters.
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It could be ordered to carry out takedowns globally, so that no one, anywhere in the world, could see material that the courts of a single country have deemed defamatory.
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At the time the article was published, a lawyer for the president, Charles J. Harder, said the allegations of fraud and tax evasion were 100 percent false, and highly defamatory.
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"Until the City stops blindly settling these frivolous lawsuits for millions of dollars, we can expect to hear more defamatory claims made against our members," he said in a statement.
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In order to succeed in court, Mr. Simmons will have to prove that the tabloids published accounts that were false, defamatory and made with a reckless disregard of the truth.
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Jamie Spears received another court win that year after suing the Absolute Britney blogger Anthony Elia, a source of the #FreeBritney movement, accusing him of spreading false and defamatory information.
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"Deliberately fake content, copied or stolen photos, off-topic reviews, defamatory language, personal attacks, and unnecessary or incorrect content are all in violation of our policy," the support page says.
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"The New York Times published today a story that is saturated with false and defamatory statements about Harvey Weinstein," Harder said in a statement supplied to The New York Post.
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"When someone issues a false and defamatory report in the name of the U.N., it is appropriate that the person resign," Ms. Haley said in response to Ms. Khalaf's resignation.
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A civil rights activist is suing Fox News and network host Jeanine Pirro, alleging that she made "false and defamatory statements" about him while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Mack was also said to have persuaded one woman, identified only in court documents as "Jane Doe 1," to join DOS by writing "false and highly defamatory" letters about her family.
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Sandra Gokee, a family member of Jason Pero, was placed on paid administrative leave after posting what Ashland School Superintendent Keith Hilts describes as defamatory and inflammatory posts on social media.
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Many cyberstalkers try to commit "economic sabotage" against their target by spamming their boss with negative emails, for example, or posting defamatory statements or sexually explicit photos online, Citron told me.
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According to the letter ... Bennett's words will be carefully monitored for any "slanderous, defamatory or untruthful statements" concerning Argento, and if they believe there are any -- they'll be taking legal action.
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In court papers, Heard's lawyers called Stanhope's accusations "completely false and defamatory" and gave a detailed account of Depp's allegedly violent behavior, which she claims was fueled by drugs and alcohol.
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Anything Gfycat deems "unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, excessively violent, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable" is subject to removal, as well.
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The 33,000-word email included 140 statements that WikiLeaks said were false and defamatory, such as the assertion that Assange had ever been an "agent or officer of any intelligence service".
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Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, recently escalated her legal battle against President Trump after filing a lawsuit accusing him of using "false and defamatory" language in a tweet.
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They said Bannon had breached an agreement by communicating with Wolff about Trump, his family and the campaign and made "disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements" about them.
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"When it comes to offensive, defamatory and hate-provoking statements like those of the minister, the only way that the judge can stop it is by blocking the accounts," Gamberini said.
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" Fabiani accused the Times of printing leaked information that was "out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O'Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace.
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The owner of the NoFap trademark and website, Alexander Rhodes, is suing a neuroscientist for defamation, claiming that she has made "numerous false and defamatory statements" about him and his work.
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Appeals Court Judge William Pryor wrote late last week that a Florida doctor can proceed with his claim that CNN ran a defamatory report that resulted in him losing his job.
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"This is outrageous,'" Ms. Trump said on the call, according to Mr. Zampolli, explaining that she was considering filing a suit against The Daily Mail for making false and defamatory statements.
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North Wind Heating & Air Conditioning accused her of publishing "false and defamatory statements" about the company that have harmed its reputation and cost the company at least six customers per day.
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While the government is allowed to explain its actions in response to criticism, it said, state organs are not allowed to react to "unobjective and defamatory attacks" in the same way.
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The law allows for up to seven days for the companies to decide on content that has been flagged as offensive, but that may not be clearly defamatory or inciting violence.
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Blakely demanded that Daniels cease and desist from making further "false and defamatory" statements about Cohen, and asked for a retraction and apology for the comments she made in Sunday's interview.
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"Nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made," Lauer wrote.
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Mark Sableman, a lawyer who defends defamation cases, said the freewheeling nature of social media has inevitably changed the understanding of language and what amounts to defamatory factual statements, versus opinion.
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Mark Sableman, a lawyer who defends defamation cases, said the freewheeling nature of social media has inevitably changed the understanding of language and what amounts to defamatory factual statements, versus opinion.
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"Facebook has declined to take down a post that is clearly false, defamatory and attacks Singapore, using falsehoods," the law ministry said in a statement on its website at the time.
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State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition and anyone who thinks differently from the ruling party.
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"I am deeply hurt and outraged at the false and defamatory claims made," Mr. Burke said in a statement about the accounts of his behavior, first reported Monday by ABC-Fairfax.
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"I hereby demand that you and your client cease and desist from making any further false and defamatory statements about my client, that you immediately retract and apologize to Mr. Cohen through the national media for your defamatory statements on '60 Minutes,' and make clear that you have no facts or evidence whatsoever to support your allegations that my client had anything whatsoever to do with this alleged thug," Brent Blakely, Cohen's lawyer, wrote in the email.
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"The false and defamatory statements in this broadcast severely and destructively impact Mr. Murray, and all of Murray Energy ... as well as coal mining itself," Murray Energy said in a press release.
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Stewart claimed in his suit that he sent Haddish, 38, and Simon & Schuster multiple letters to resolve the "harmful and defamatory" assertions in the chapter, "The Ex-Husband," before filing the suit.
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After Trump's April tweet, Daniels sued, arguing that Trump had posted a false statement against her that was defamatory because it suggested she was falsely accusing a man of committing a crime.
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The result: a Lord of the Flies free-for-all where young users weaponize dubious screenshots, defamatory callout videos, and whisper campaigns via group chats to deliver vigilante justice at dizzying speeds.
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" Daniels' attorneys said that tweet unfairly portrayed her as a liar, But U.S. District Judge James Otero ruled that it was non-defamatory on its face, instead characterizing it as "rhetorical hyperbole.
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Despite the Delhi court ruling, a Varanasi district magistrate issued an order this month allowing people to make police reports against the group or its admin, for content deemed false or defamatory.
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The thing I have experienced from day one on these kinds of topics is the lazy and in many cases malicious and intentional misrepresentation of my views to have a defamatory effect.
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"The question is whether the tweet by the president is protected communication or political hyperbole and non-defamatory on its face," U.S. District Judge James Otero said at a hearing on Monday.
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The site posted a defamatory article on Sunday about Heather Heyer, the woman killed when a car drove into a crowd of counterprotesters at an alt-right rally in Virginia on Saturday.
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"This anonymously sourced and uncorroborated story is false, defamatory, and obviously intended to destroy this good man's career and family," Bolling's main lawyer Michael Bowe said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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So even though Harder insisted that the Times's report "is saturated with false and defamatory statements," Weinstein himself has acknowledged that he regrets "what happened" — implying that something did in, fact, happen.
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"The jury's verdict is a complete vindication of Nicole Eramo, and a complete repudiation of Rolling Stone's and Ms. Erdely's false and defamatory article," Eramo's attorney, Libby Locke, said in a statement.
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He could also face criminal charges if the photo was taken in a private place without the subject's consent or if the comments published with the photos are considered defamatory or injurious.
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" Shortly after the report published, Weinstein attorney Charles Harder announced that Weinstein will sue the New York Times for publicizing "false and defamatory statements," with the proceeds being donated "to women's organizations.
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"Twitter allowed @DevinNunesMom to post hundreds of egregiously false, defamatory, insulting, abusive, hateful, scandalous and vile statements about Nunes that without question violated Twitter's Terms of Service and Rules," the lawsuit states.
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Weinstein, who announced Thursday that he'd be taking a leave of absence from his company, has threatened to sue the Times over "a story that is saturated with false and defamatory statements."
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This has been a year where online platforms take greater responsibility to ban problematic figures, many of whom identify as members of the alt-right, from spreading malicious, incorrect, and defamatory information.
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"There was no racial intent in my remarks — false, defamatory charges of racism are a transparent attempt to immunize entertainment and sports elites from scrutiny and criticism," she said in a statement.
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This is not to dismiss Trump's claims about the veracity of Wolff's account; while some of the book may be false or even defamatory, there is plainly much in it that isn't.
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Myanmar: A radical Buddhist monk has been charged with sedition over what prosecutors say are defamatory remarks he made about the nation's civilian leader, the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Zervos sued Trump in January, contending that his denials of her accusations amounted to false and defamatory statements and that being "branded a liar" by Trump has harmed her and her business.
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" The policies give a series of examples, including content that is defamatory, discriminatory, meanspirited, overtly sexual, encourages violence or includes "realistic portrayals of people or animals being killed, maimed, tortured, or abused.
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Each lawsuit claims that opinion pieces published by the outlets make defamatory statements about the campaign that have been disproven by the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 85033 election.
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Meanwhile, Raskin's decision to invoke Solomon's name at the impeachment trial was intriguing, given that he was responsible for publishing false and defamatory stories about former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at Giuliani's direction.
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The internet in particular "has become a minefield of defamation … providing individuals with the unlimited ability to post defamatory content," notes a 2019 Southwestern Journal of International Law review of digitized defamation.
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"Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made," Lauer wrote.
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"Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made," Lauer wrote.
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They called on celebrities and prominent journalists to apologize to the students, and a group of lawyers announced that it would sue popular figures who had tweeted defamatory statements about the incident.
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"Madigan's defamatory statement was one that harmed Gonzales' reputation to the extent it lowered Gonzales in the eyes of the community and deterred the community from associating with him," his lawsuit alleged.
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Judge Martin concluded that Justice Goodson, who sued a half-dozen television stations in Fayetteville and Little Rock on Monday, was likely to prevail on her allegations that the JCN ads were defamatory.
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Whereas Hogan sued Gawker for a violation of privacy, it is believed that Ailes would be going after Sherman for libel — a charge that Sherman made false and defamatory statements in his reporting.
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"An accused person cannot be foreclosed, during their responsive navigation, from considering the issuance of a simple and unequivocal denial -- free from overall defamatory triggers or contextual themes," he wrote in the decision.
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When the internet went mainstream in the mid-2500s, online firms feared being held liable if their services were used in illegal ways—for instance, when subscribers posted copyrighted content or defamatory information.
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The court said the information board clearly stated that the parish "distanced itself from the persecution of Jews, the anti-Judaic writings of Martin Luther and the mocking aim of the defamatory sculpture".
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In the case of #HillarysHealth and #Pizzagate, it invented defamatory conspiracy theories, forcing the candidate into an unwinnable choice: stoop to address the fever swamp's claims or let them fester and gather steam.
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In the suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Hall seeks $5 million and slams the outspoken singer as a "desperate, attention-seeker (who) has maliciously published outlandish defamatory lies" about him.
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Singer called it a "cruel, mean-spirited, and defamatory" depiction in a letter to FX. Ariadne's son, August Getty, echoed his mother's statement, calling the projects "demonizing" in the New York Times piece.
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Of course, then his lawyer turned around and announced intentions to sue the Times, saying the reporting is "saturated with false and defamatory statements" and promising that proceeds will go to women's organizations.
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The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case regarding whether Yelp is culpable for removing defamatory reviews from its site, resolving a case that could have affected web platforms' legal protections.
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Accordingly, we demand your client immediately delete the false and defamatory statements about my clients from her social media posts and that she issue a retraction and a sincere apology to my clients.
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" Last week, ABC News reported that Argento's attorneys warned Bennett in a letter that his words would "be carefully monitored," and threatened legal action if he makes any "slanderous, defamatory or untruthful statements.
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Defendants were aware of Mr. Oliveira's opportunistic behavior after receiving notices from Mr. Simmons' representatives but continued to republish the defamatory sex change allegations without further investigation into Mr. Oliviera's credibility or motive.
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Later, Flavio said he was the target of a "defamatory campaign" after news outlets reported that he employed the mother and wife of a fugitive former policeman accused of running a criminal organization.
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Christian Estrosi, president of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and deputy mayor of Nice, said in a statement Wednesday that the photos "provoke defamatory remarks and threats" against police agents.
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Richard Simmons just suffered a potentially devastating loss in his lawsuit against American Media -- which claimed he was transitioning to a woman -- because the judge just said calling someone transgender is NOT defamatory.
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Melania Trump filed a libel lawsuit Thursday against the publisher of The Daily Mail, contending that it published an article that contained "false and defamatory statements," including that she was once an escort.
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Mr. Harder said last month that he had informed several news outlets, including Politico, Inquisitr and Liberal America, that they could face legal action for articles they published that Ms. Trump called defamatory.
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Last week, Rizieq was questioned by police over claims that he made defamatory comments in 2014 about one of Indonesia's founding fathers, Sukarno, and had questioned the legitimacy of the state ideology, Pancasila.
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But I ask you, tomorrow night when he accepts the nomination and the whole country is watching, will he alter his tone instead of the usual defamatory remarks, and provide some real substance?
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The former executive, Omeed Malik, is asking Bank of America for the money because he claims the bank used "false and defamatory language" in public documents about his termination, according to the Journal.
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A lawyer for Melania Trump said Monday that he had informed several news organizations, including The Daily Mail, that they could face legal action for publishing articles that Ms. Trump contended were defamatory.
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Singapore's Ministry of Law said "Facebook has declined to take down a post that is clearly false, defamatory and attacks Singapore, using falsehoods", which illustrated the need to introduce legislation fighting fake news.
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But when Mr. Wiesel threatened to sue, calling the script "defamatory" and "obscene," the playwright, Deb Margolin, transformed him into Galkin for the version that had its premiere at Stageworks/Hudson in 2010.
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Argento is now fighting the settlement she reached with the teen in an effort not to pay the final $130,20173, and she has threatened to sue Bennett for any defamatory statements in interviews.
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The plaintiff must not only prove the piece of journalism was false and defamatory, but also that it was published recklessly and with malicious intent to do damage to the pubic figure's reputation.
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"Matthew Parish gravely damaged (Petroforce's) honor and it was essential for the firm that the defamatory nature of Mr. Parish's remarks be formally established," Marc Hassberger, one of Petroforce's lawyers, said on Saturday.
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"Matthew Parish gravely damaged (Petroforce's) honor and it was essential for the firm that the defamatory nature of Mr. Parish's remarks be formally established," Marc Hassberger, one of Petroforce's lawyers, said on Saturday.
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Blakely demanded that Daniels cease and desist from making further "false and defamatory" statements about Cohen, and asked for a retraction and apology for the comments she made on Sunday's 60 Minutes interview.
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Blakely demanded that Daniels cease and desist from making further "false and defamatory" statements about Cohen, and asked for a retraction and apology for the comments she made on Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview.
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His background came under scrutiny when he was first named as a Trump adviser, including comments former colleagues alleged he had made downplaying the Holocaust -- accusations Schmitz has said are false and defamatory.
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Shillinglaw, who was fired last year, says that Baylor leaders and others were defamatory in unfairly blaming him when it was the university's public safety officials who were responsible for handling assault complaints.
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In her suit, Zervos won't actually have to prove that Trump sexually assaulted her — she'll just have to prove that what he said about her was defamatory, potentially a lower bar to clear.
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" Wedge added: "Again today, Mr. Avenatti used Twitter to launch a defamatory charge against Attorney Davidson, who has been and shall continue to be a zealous advocate for the best interests of his clients.
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In the past, the country's leaders have sued and won damages or out-of-court settlements from foreign publications, including the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and The Economist, for defamatory allegations.
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On Sunday night, a lawyer for Cohen sent a letter to Daniels' attorney, alleging that Daniels had made "false and defamatory" claims about Cohen in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired earlier that evening.
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"The damages go beyond Mr. Pozner's feelings being hurt, there are real-world implications," Zimmerman told CNN, saying the real damage is that people who read these defamatory claims have taken against his client.
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Section 230 shields "interactive computer service" owners from liability over what other people post — so you can sue someone for writing a defamatory Facebook comment, but you can't sue Facebook for hosting that comment.
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If these tweets are legally defamatory, Nunes' accusations against Twitter might be stymied by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which holds that web platforms aren't liable for content that's posted by users.
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Under his notorious communications law, the media have faced stiff fines when they have published articles the president considers defamatory and—even more outrageously—when they have not published articles he thinks they should.
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German lawmakers have passed tough legislation that imposes fines of up to 50 million euros ($60 million) on companies operating social media platforms if they fail to take down defamatory and fake news promptly.
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Didn't do this to the New York Times obviously, and saying, "Actually, this is highly defamatory and we will take legal action if you persist in publishing these falsehoods," and went into another panic.
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Halunen previously told BuzzFeed News that Padilla's testimony about his client was "outrageous and possibly defamatory," and that the settlement he received was standard per the 40% cut he takes from all contingency cases.
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Rizwan Razi, who worked for private Din TV in the city of Lahore, was being investigated for "defamatory and obnoxious" comments about the judiciary, government and intelligence services, according to Pakistan's law enforcement agency.
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One of the targets of Liaquat's show was activist lawyer Jibran Nasir, who filed a police complaint under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act on Thursday charging him with "running a defamatory and life-threatening campaign".
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"That said, if your client agrees to cease and desist such defamatory behavior, we are willing to engage in constructive conversations regarding the texts and photos which we have in our possession," he continued.
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If he goes beyond rhetoric and actively curbs intolerance, takes defamatory rhetoric off the airwaves and improves the lives of Saudi Arabia's own beleaguered Shiite community, extremist arguments could start to lose their potency.
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The court ruled that a public official cannot prevail in a libel suit against a publisher without showing actual malice on the publisher's part, even if the statements in question were false and defamatory.
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" O'Reilly's attorney maintained his client's innocence while blasting The New York Times for publishing a story that is "out of context, false, defamatory" and was designed to "keep him from competing in the marketplace.
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The attorney representing Covington Catholic high school student Nick Sandmann said Thursday that he is also "looking very carefully" at HBO's Bill Maher for making "defamatory" statements against the 16-year-old in January.
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" His spokesman, Mark Fabiani, accused the Times of publishing leaked information that was "out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O'Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace.
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The lawsuit alleges that between July 15 and August 30, Musk periodically used Twitter and emails to the media to publish false and defamatory accusations against Unsworth, including accusations of pedophilia and child rape.
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The lawsuit alleges that between July 15 and August 30, Musk periodically used Twitter and emails to the media to publish false and defamatory accusations against Unsworth, including accusations of pedophilia and child rape.
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In August, he issued a white paper outlining ways to rein in Big Tech, including passing privacy laws like those enacted in Europe this year, and making social media platforms liable for defamatory content.
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"On behalf of my client, I first emailed a cease and desist letter to this woman regarding postings she had made online my clients considered defamatory," Sadock said in a statement emailed to VICE.
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In June 2017, US representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota called for Twitter to ban Trump after a series of defamatory tweets directed at Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski, and Twitter did not ban him.
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During a scene in which a Journal-Constitution reporter is shown offering sex to an F.B.I. agent in exchange for information — a scene the paper has called "false and defamatory" — an audience member hissed.
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Unsworth is seeking at least $26,000 in compensatory damages, as well as an injunction against Musk requiring him to "refrain from making further publication of the False and Defamatory Accusations," according to court documents.
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Gianforte, Mr. Hall, and the Gianforte campaign of the need to cease and desist from making defamatory statements, made after the date of the pertinent General Release, about him or the May 24 assault.
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Riff started to tell us he's just like his heroes -- Hugh Hefner and Dan Bilzerian -- and that's when his lawyer cut him off, and simplified their defense ... denying the allegations and labeling them defamatory.
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" In response to the claims of "sabotage," Dick Clark Productions said in a statement to PEOPLE: "To suggest that DCP… would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd.
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" Lavely & Singer denied that it is an "aggressive firm" saying, "we merely apply existing law to counter and preclude illegal conduct by others, including individuals who would publish false and defamatory statements regarding our clients.
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A federal judge in California dismissed Monday a defamation lawsuit that Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) filed against President Trump for what her legal team described as "irresponsible and defamatory statements" on Twitter.
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This movement was with full permission of joint business rescue practitioners * Any suggestions that rehabilitation fund has been drawn down upon are absolutely untrue and defamatory For full story: Source text for Eikon: (Bengaluru Newsroom)
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LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different "false and defamatory" statements about its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.
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The free speech warrior says that the three university employees criticizing him (which included Hitler comparisons) in a private meeting with Shepard was defamatory to him and they should have anticipated their remarks going public.
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The case, which was brought by an Austrian Green party politician seeking to scrub defamatory comments from the platform, is the latest to question how far social media companies must go to police online content.
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Journalists, constantly in the public eye, are easy targets for Pakistan's vague and lethal blasphemy laws, which criminalize any statement that is "defamatory" to Islam, religious texts, the holy prophet or anyone associated with him.
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Clinton of having made "false and defamatory statements negligently, recklessly and purposefully and/or intentionally with malice" in her public comments, including those about the connection between the attack and an anti-Muslim YouTube video.
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" Mr. Garrow, whose book included jabs at Mr. Maraniss and other Obama biographers, said the comment was "utterly and completely false," and that it should not be repeated in this article because it was "defamatory.
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It called "false" and "defamatory" several reports that appeared on InfoWars alleging that the company's factory in Idaho, which employs refugees, was connected to a 2016 child sexual assault and a rise in tuberculosis cases.
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But whether a court would deem the sex-change allegation a defamatory statement is unclear, said Samantha Barbas, a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law who specializes in libel and privacy law.
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"Members of this commission, including me, have already been subjected to vicious and defamatory personal attacks," the former Federal Election Commission member said during the commission's first public meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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" Israel's mission in Geneva, home to Ms. Bachelet's office, lamented that she had succumbed to pressure to publish the "defamatory blacklist" and had "lost all credibility or ability to promote human rights in our region.
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According to a source, who declined to be named, Twitter was asked to comply swiftly with any requests from the election commission related to issues such as hate speech or defamatory content on its platform.
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For our trouble, we've been the subject of lawsuits, harassment, deceitful and defamatory attacks, and most recently, retaliatory legislation rushed through union-backed legislatures — all to keep workers in the dark about their constitutional rights.
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He again pointed the finger at Russian state-controlled media Russia Today and Sputnik saying they were spreading "the most defamatory" rumors about Macron, including relating to his private life and the financing of his campaign.
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The judge did rule that Watson was only entitled to identification of the individual or individuals that posted the stories, and only obtain information from two days when DMA had posted allegedly defamatory statements against Watson.
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The firm warned King that his conduct could cost him a fortune if he didn't take back everything he had already said within 48 hours and promise not to make any more "defamatory" accusations against Robbins.
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Read these stories next: Sorority Girl Expelled From The University Of Alabama For Racist Rant, Sparking Protests White Nationalists Increasingly Target Colleges With Recruitment Propaganda Rolling Stone Settles With UVA Fraternity After Defamatory Gang Rape Article
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In the unusually forthright statement issued by Harry's office which confirmed the relationship for the first time, the prince's Communications Secretary said they had fought nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories from appearing in papers.
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Although ostensibly aimed at hateful or defamatory speech, he believes that the German authorities are blurring the boundary between statements that would in any case be illegal and a dangerously ill-defined concept of fake news.
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"Following the accusations in the media, Mr Denis Baupin wants to stress ... that these are defamatory and baseless lies," the statement said, adding he had resigned to protect the reputation of parliament and to defend himself.
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Now let's see what Infowars says about censoring people on its own website: You will not post anything libelous, defamatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, or otherwise illegal.
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I write a popular opinion piece about brown men falling in love with white women on TV and movies, and then someone writes a defamatory fan fiction piece about me not getting any attention in college.
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Other items listed as false and defamatory included more personal claims including that Assange bleaches his hair, that he is a hacker, that he has ever neglected an animal or that he has poor personal hygiene.
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Among the assertions that WikiLeaks labeled "false" or "defamatory" were allegations that Assange had ever been an "agent or officer of any intelligence service" or has close ties to the Kremlin or Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Chris Van Hollen further noted that "to justify the denied promotion," the World Bank "retrospectively downgraded" Biru's performance record by deleting his title and management roles from World Bank website and replacing them with "defamatory" remarks.
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Mr. Fidell believes Mr. Trump's comments have compromised his client's right to a fair trial; he has sought to interview Mr. Trump and also signaled that he could be later sued for knowingly making defamatory statements.
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Further legal appeals led to the referral to the CJEU which is being asked to determine where the line should be drawn for similarly defamatory postings, and whether takedowns can be applied globally or only locally.
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The President has called on Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt, to halt the book's publication and threatened them with a lawsuit alleging that its contents are libelous, defamatory and an infringement on the President's privacy.
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In his suit, Mr. Elliott said that the claims about him on the list, which included "rape accusations" and "sexual harassment," were false and defamatory, and that they had caused him significant professional and personal problems.
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Corfman, who says she was forced to take a temporary leave of absence from her job after the news broke, wants Moore to retract his allegedly defamatory statements, apologize, and pay her back for court costs.
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Days earlier, a judge had ordered her to pay damages worth more than $29,287 to the man she said sexually assaulted her, to apologize to him, and to never publish defamatory statements about him ever again.
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" In a statement denouncing what he called "defamatory allegations," Mr. Abramovich's Swiss lawyer, Daniel Glasl, said: "Any suggestion that Mr. Abramovich has been involved in money laundering or has contacts with criminal organizations is entirely false.
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New York (CNN Business)A woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her alleges that she lost her long-standing magazine column because of Trump's "defamatory comments," according to court documents filed on Tuesday.
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The country's media regulator warned local news channels to abstain from airing statements "by political leadership containing defamatory and derogatory content targeting various state institutions specifically judiciary and armed forces", the regulator said in a statement.
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Daniels's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted Monday that his client has filed the lawsuit for Trump's "irresponsible and defamatory statements" about Daniels, whom Cohen paid $6900,2628 as part of a nondisclosure agreement weeks before the 28503 election.
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"Once again, Roy Moore is publicly making defamatory statements about the 4 brave women named in The Washington Post by calling them liars and accusing them of bribery and conspiracy," Cobia wrote on her Facebook page.
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The lawsuit comes after Abraham was threatened with a cease and desist letter due to her "defamatory statements and libelous communications" about the Boom Cups Celebrity Boxing Showdown, according to the letter obtained by PEOPLE in November.
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"We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts," Trump said.
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Immediately after the interview aired, Cohen's lawyer Brent Blakely used much stronger language in a letter to Daniels's lawyer: I am writing in connection with the false and defamatory statements you and your client, Stephanie Clifford a.k.a.
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A British cave diving expert who helped save the young Thai football team that got trapped in caves this summer is preparing a legal action against Elon Musk for making "false and defamatory statements", TechCrunch has confirmed.
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Legal experts say it's not clear whether face-swapped porn violates any law, as the content is not defamatory (if identified as fake) and cannot be classified as revenge porn (as the pornographic element was made consensually).
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The 45-year-old Skinnygirl mogul spilled secrets about the taping on her SiriusXM show B Real with Bethenny recently, calling it "disgusting" and accusing costar LuAnn de Lesseps of making up a defamatory story against her.
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"Breitbart News Network, a pro-America, conservative website, is preparing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major media company for its baseless and defamatory claim that Breitbart News is a 'white nationalist website,'" the statement reads.
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Kasowitz also alleges in the answer that Zervos is not entitled to punitive damages as a matter of law, that Trump's "alleged defamatory statements" are true and that they are privileged or protected speech, among other arguments.
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"Breitbart News Network, a pro-America, conservative website, is preparing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major media company for its baseless and defamatory claim that Breitbart News is a 'white nationalist website,'" the statement read.
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Moore and his wife, Kayla Moore, filed a lawsuit in Alabama's Etowah County Circuit Court, claiming the "misleading" and "defamatory" commercials targeted allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore going back decades, local news outlet AL.com reported.
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This week in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Judge Mark G. Mastroianni agreed that it was the allegedly defamatory statements, not his alleged sexual misconduct, that directly caused the injury the women claim.
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SITTWE, Myanmar — Ashin Wirathu, a radical Buddhist monk in Myanmar, has been charged with sedition over what prosecutors say are defamatory remarks he made about the nation's civilian leader, the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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To win such a case the President must establish that false and defamatory material about the President was published in Wolff's book and that both Wolff and his publishers acted with "actual malice" in publishing the material.
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" He did not explicitly refer to the videos, but said that for the past year his family had been "subjected to defamatory statements, lies, anonymous attacks, the disclosure of stolen private conversations, as well as death threats.
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The judge also ruled that Kesha could be held "vicariously liable" if a jury finds that her lawyer and public relations firm made defamatory statements on her behalf, including speaking about the case to the news media.
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Subodh Chandra, Mr. Obeidallah's lawyer, said the comedian has not received any money or heard from Mr. Anglin but that Mr. Anglin appeared to have "complied with the injunction by removing the defamatory material from his website."
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Unfortunately, one thing they won't be addressing is the widespread criticism over Facebook's policy of refusing to fact-check political ads, even if they combine sensational and defamatory misinformation paired with calls to donate to a campaign.
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Subodh Chandra, Mr. Obeidallah's lawyer, said the comedian has not received any money or heard from Mr. Anglin but that Mr. Anglin appeared to have "complied with the injunction by removing the defamatory material from his website."
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Cohen denied any involvement with that apparent threat in the parking lot, and Cohen's lawyer sent Daniels a cease-and-desist letter over her "defamatory" claim that Cohen was responsible for the "alleged thug" who'd threatened her.
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READ: Devin Nunes' defamation lawsuit against Twitter, users who criticized him The California congressman accuses Twitter of allowing the users to spread "false and defamatory statements" about him, alleging that the company harbors a political agenda against conservatives.
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" Avenatti points to that statement as the basis for the defamation claim, stating in the amended complaint, "It was reasonably understood by those who read or heard the statement that Mr. Cohen's defamatory statement was about Ms. Clifford.
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A Kenyan court decision in July 2018 led to the release of the containers, which had been impounded in Mombasa, following a delay of around nine months as a result of "the defamatory actions," the court documents said.
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But Judge Arthur J. Schwab of United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that none of the statements Ms. Hill cited were defamatory and that they amounted to opinions protected by the First Amendment.
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" Those essences have been certified by the company's suppliers to be "100% natural," says National Beverage, which plans to "vigorously seek actual and punitive damages among other remedies from everyone involved in the publication of these defamatory falsehoods.
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In opposing a deposition, defense lawyers said DiCaprio did not write the screenplay, and that there was no claim he had any role in deciding whether alleged defamatory content should be included in or excluded from the film.
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And we are faced with the puzzle of a major party nominee who seems incapable of admitting a mistake, even when it involves a protracted, defamatory crusade widely regarded as racist in its effect, if not its intent.
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" "Consequently journalists and publishers have a clear responsibility to carefully fact-check from primary sources and to consult the following list to ensure they are not spreading, and have not spread, defamatory falsehoods about WikiLeaks or Julian Assange.
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WikiLeaks also said it was false and defamatory to suggest that Assange, 47, had ever been employed by the Russian government or that he is, or has ever been, close to the Russian state, the Kremlin or Putin.
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The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any entrant submitting an entry which, in the opinion of the Promoter, includes objectionable content, including but not limited to profanity, nudity, potentially insulting, scandalous, inflammatory or defamatory images or language.
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A wave of protests driven by a Brazilian libertarian group known as Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL), included defacing Santander's building and leading a smear campaign on social media that used bots to spread defamatory content about the exhibit.
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The lawsuit, which called for the Post to pay $250 million in damages, alleged that the paper published "a series of false and defamatory print and online articles" about Sandmann's encounter with the Native American elder in February.
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M5S, which initially proposed Conte as a minister of public administration ahead of the inconclusive March 4 election, took to its blog to defend Conte, saying the accusations were part of a defamatory campaign by the party's opponents.
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Ms. Agostino's false and defamatory statements have not only effected [sic] the North Wind's business, but has had a direct negative effect on its ability to of their employees and their families, all because she made false claims.
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But Mr. Deripaska's lawyers described the accusations as "nothing more than false rumor and innuendo and originate from decades-old defamatory attacks originated by his business competitors," and "completely untethered" from the claims of aiding Russia's malign activities.
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Mr. Elliott is asking the court to order that the defendants "issue a written retraction to each and every person to whom they originally published the false and defamatory statements," and no less than $2 million in damages.
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Competitive videogamer Billy Mitchell is threatening "legal recourse" against Guinness World Records and the Twin Galaxies scoreboard if they don't retract "defamatory statements" against him and reinstate his expunged game score world records within the next two weeks.
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"And the damages stemming from Trump's defamatory comments continue to accumulate: 'Elle' magazine, which published 'Ask E. Jean' for 26 years, declined to renew her contract in December 2019, and so ended her primary income," the filing adds.
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The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the list represented Biomet's opinion that certain individuals posed "significant and unacceptable risks" of noncompliance with anticorruption laws, and not a statement of fact that could be false or defamatory.
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"These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging," attorney Charles Harder wrote in a letter dated Wednesday on behalf of the president and the Trump Organization to Susan Weiner and Daniel Kummer, in-house attorneys at NBCUniversal.
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" Speaking at a White House Cabinet meeting, Trump said the goal of the effort would be "so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.
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As Reason magazine's Elizabeth Nolan Brown detailed on Tuesday: Under Section 230, Twitter does not need to determine itself what is or isn't defamatory content, it only needs comply if legal authorities say it must take something down.
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The court documents reveal that these sinister-looking masked performers are actually humans like the rest of us: The defamatory points of contention range from inadequate laundry facilities to rogue bananas (one member of the crew is allergic).
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" The filing also argues that Ravenel's claims their kids "have regressed" under her supervision are completely erroneous, and asks that Jacobs "not be exposed to the children," alleging she has "repeatedly said horrible and defamatory statements about the Plaintiff.
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"The significance of the ruling is clear: publication of accusations on Twitter does not provide a safe harbor for defamatory statements that are false and convey that they are factual," Unsworth's lawyer L. Lin Wood said in an email.
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"It would be appropriate for the company and the supervisory board to distance itself from Professor Lehner's defamatory remarks by publicly stating that the company does not support them and does not view them as truthful," the letter said.
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It says that online services like Facebook and Twitter aren't legally responsible for content posted by their users, even if it's illegal: If a Facebook user posts something defamatory, the injured person can sue the user, but not Facebook.
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Since 2009 the Charter of Fundamental Rights has been invoked in a series of data-privacy cases, including the "right to be forgotten" ruling, under which individuals can force search engines to remove links to embarrassing or defamatory websites.
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The court ruled that recommendations site Yelp couldn't be forced to remove a defamatory review from its site, based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a legal shield that's been criticized by Republican politicians in recent months.
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Earlier this week, the former MTV star was threatened with a cease and desist letter due to her "defamatory statements and libelous communications" about the Boom Cups Celebrity Boxing Showdown, according to the letter obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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In the letter sent by the firm to Musk's home earlier this month Wood informs Musk he has been retained by Unsworth on account of the defamatory statements made by Musk on Twitter alleging that he is a pedophile.
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She contended a letter that a lawyer for Cosby sent the newspaper called her a liar by saying the article was "defamatory," characterizing her claims as "wild" and suggesting she had a criminal record by citing other accusers' crimes.
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In lengthy fundraising emails and sprawling state-of-play updates in recent weeks, Stone writes that his family is facing financial annihilation from the legal bills he's incurring to defend himself in what he calls "frivolous, groundless, defamatory" lawsuits.
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Mr. Smith filed for bankruptcy in 2007 while defending himself against a libel lawsuit brought by Mr. Adelson, who alleged that Mr. Smith's book "Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas" was defamatory.
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The story that Trump and Kasowitz are telling the world is riddled through with contradictions: Comey's untrustworthy, but his testimony vindicating; Comey is a shady leaker, but his leaks are fake, and therefore defamatory claims, not leaks at all.
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A presidential defenseHowever, Eikhoff said there is one big different between Zervos and Carroll's cases that could add an extra complication for the latter — the fact that Trump made his allegedly defamatory comments about Carroll while he was president.
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In 22014, the new coalition government enacted the Telecommunications Act, which includes a contentious section titled "183D" that authorizes putting people in jail for taking a broad range of online actions that fall under the umbrella of defamatory speech.
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So in practice it does not that mean a court order issued in one EU country will get universally applied in all jurisdictions as there's no international agreement on what constitutes unlawful speech or even more narrowly defamatory speech.
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In the press release released late Monday Babylon refers to Dr David Watkins — via his Twitter handle — as a "troll" and claims he's "targeted members of our staff, partners, clients, regulators and journalists and tweeted defamatory content about us".
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Musk's False and Defamatory Accusations falsely accused Mr. Unsworth of being a (1) a pedophile ,(2)a child rapist, (3) a child sex-trafficker,(123) the husband of a 12-year old child bride,and (5) a liar. 117.
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Sources with knowledge of Hill's resignation said her decision to step down was prompted, in part, by hopes of stemming the flow of embarrassing and defamatory reports that have popped up in multiple outlets, starting with conservative site RedState.
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The video was so demonizing of Latino migrants and so defamatory of Democrats that it took a place alongside the infamous Willie Horton ad that helped George Bush defeat his Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis, in the 1988 presidential election.
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Both lawsuits say the dossier compiled by Fusion GPS and contained "false and defamatory" allegations about Cohen that resulted in "harm to his personal and professional reputation, current business interests, and the impairment of business opportunities," according to ABC News.
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Here's the problem with Justice Goodson's litigation to shut down the public broadcast of ads deemed to be false and defamatory: The restraining orders she wants are almost certainly unconstitutional prior restraints, according to First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh of UCLA.
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"He's basically stating that Mr. Obama committed crimes, and to state that somebody has committed a crime when it's false is clearly defamatory," Benjamin Zipursky, who teaches defamation law at Fordham University Law School in New York, told NBC News.
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The producers of 2.0 also found themselves in legal trouble two weeks ago when the Cellular Operators Association of India sued the company, claiming that the film's depiction of mobile phone technology is "defamatory" and could cause paranoia among the public.
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The former Teen Mom OG star, 27, was recently threatened with a cease and desist letter due to her "defamatory statements and libelous communications" about the Boom Cups Celebrity Boxing Showdown, according to the letter obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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Statements made by Bill Cosby, his wife and his lawyer at the time to counter accusations that he had sexually assaulted women were not defamatory, a federal judge ruled Thursday as he dismissed a Pittsburgh woman's defamation lawsuit against the entertainer.
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The lawsuit, filed last week in Nevada state court, charges that Jorgen Nielsen, a former artistic director at the Wynn Las Vegas salon, made "false and defamatory" statements to the Wall Street Journal and ABC News, according to the report.
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"If your client agrees to cease and desist such defamatory behavior, we are willing to engage in constructive conversations regarding the texts and photos which we have in our possession," reads one email that was sent to Bezos' legal team.
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"Despite Defendant's defamatory statements to the contrary, Ms. Corfman has not received any compensation from the Washington Post or from any other source for disclosing Mr. Moore's sexual abuse of her when she was 14 years old," the suit reads.
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BRASILIA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer vowed on Friday to veto an article in a new electoral bill that would allow parties and candidates to force social media outlets to immediately withdraw offensive or defamatory content by anonymous authors.
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" The production company and host Ryan Seacrest fired back in the days to follow, Dick Clark Productions telling PEOPLE in a statement that suggesting they "would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd.
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Mario Saad, a researcher in Brazil, failed to convince a judge in Massachusetts that an expression of concern — a step that often, although not always, comes before a retraction — about four of his papers in the journal Diabetes, was defamatory.
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Cops do it all the time, and you can even do it as a regular person in civil court if you think a commenter has said something defamatory, although it's really expensive and probably not a great use of your time.
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" The letter claims that designations of the group as a terrorist organization by Western governments were done "at the request of Tehran," and says accusations that the MEK killed Americans in Iran in the 1970s constituted "defamatory allegations from decades past.
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Stephen Elliott, a writer and founder of the literary site the Rumpus, sued Moira Donegan for $1.5 million in damages last week, alleging that the accusations next to his name in the now-offline list are unsubstantiated, false, and defamatory.
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" After several production companies severed ties with Deen and his longtime champions at Doc Johnson announced they would discontinue their popular dildo line modeled on his penis, Deen took to Twitter to call the accusations against him "false and defamatory.
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The letter cited an upcoming book about Trump's first year as president by journalist Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, in which Trump's lawyers allege Bannon made "outright defamatory statements" and revealed "confidential information," ABC News reports.
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In addition to presidential immunity, Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz argued that the alleged defamatory statements were also "privileged or protected by one or more immunities, including, but not limited to, under the Constitution of the United States," among other defenses.
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When asked if his tweets violate Twitter's terms of service against defamatory content and harassment, a spokesperson sent this statement to TechCrunch: "Tweets and accounts are reviewed against the Twitter Rules and if a violation is found, action is taken."
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"Splinter also failed to do anything to corroborate the accuracy of Ms. Delgado's defamatory accusations, which have already been disproven by at least one reporter whom Ms. Delgado attempted to involve in her continuous attempts to smear me," Miller wrote.
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The court filing said O'Reilly is seeking "damages for the public hatred, ridicule, disgrace and permanent harm to his professional and personal reputations as a result of Defendant Panter's publication of knowingly false defamatory statements," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Trump also reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon late Wednesday, saying that he violated a nondisclosure agreement by speaking with Wolff and accusing him of making "disparaging" and "outright defamatory" statements.
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During this discussion, you have called me, and not through implication, not through something where you're reading in between the lines, you've called me a slanderer, a liar, intellectually dishonest, a bad-faith actor, cynically motivated by profit, defamatory, a libelist.
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According to the Mirror, in the 11-page letter, Cohen Davis Solicitors explained that Gardner's review was "defamatory and therefore unlawful" and that their client would be seeking damages from Gardner for "tens of thousands of pounds" in lost business.
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His opinion says that Facebook cannot be ordered to look for and take down posts that are "equivalent" to the original defamatory posts because identifying them would impose the kind of general monitoring obligation on Facebook that European Union law prohibits.
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" Mr. Kasowitz has also argued that because the allegedly defamatory statements were made during a national political campaign, they should be viewed as "part of the expected fiery rhetoric, hyperbole and opinion that is squarely protected by the First Amendment.
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One can never know for certain how it will rule, but the values it must consider include authenticity, safety, privacy and dignity, none of which seem to be present in an ad that intentionally circulates an outright defamatory lie about someone.
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On the contrary, the Times Magazine published a story about me with so many defamatory falsehoods that my funder had to cancel two fundraising events because people were so dismayed by that article, which was absolutely full of false statements.
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The decision of top intelligence officials to give the president, the president-elect and the so-called Gang of Eight — Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress and the intelligence committees — what they know to be unverified, defamatory material was extremely unusual.
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How Trump plans to stop it: "Trump attorneys send cease-and-desist letter this morning to Wolff and book publisher Henry Holt demanding they stop publication and issue an apology to Donald Trump for defamatory statements made thus far." http://bit.
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" Justice Alito wrote that there was reason to question whether juries could be entrusted with deciding questions in libel cases that were "highly technical," particularly where the "allegedly defamatory speech concerns a political or social issue that arouses intense feelings.
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A court found this week three media companies, including News Corp and Nine-owned newspaper publisher Fairfax, were liable for defamatory comments posted below articles on their Facebook pages despite being unable to edit the comments by members of the public.
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Section 230 of the Communications Act provides similar protection for other kinds of content, which is why Twitter and Facebook weren't shut down the moment one of their millions of users posted a defamatory statement, threatening hate speech, or nude pictures of children.
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Much of what has been written and talked about is false and defamatory," and that "Matt's attorneys insist that it should be known that for each of the instances described in the media and online, there are two sides to these stories.
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Wilson sued Australian magazine publisher Bauer Media for a series of defamatory articles published about the actress in 22017, which branded her a "serial liar" and "fabricated almost every aspect of her life," according to the Supreme Court of Victoria's judgment on Wednesday.
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By putting the burden on the defendant in a libel lawsuit to prove the truth of a statement said to be defamatory, the law abridged freedom of speech, and of the press in particular, by unduly restricting criticism of conduct by government officials.
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Unsworth said he is not a pedophile, child rapist, child sex trafficker, husband of a 12-year-old bride, or liar, and that the defamatory statements "were manufactured out of whole cloth by Musk" because of the disagreement over the mini-submarine.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A big-ticket Indian film that shows a post-apocalyptic world in which cellphones turn against their users has ruffled the feathers of the country's telecom companies, who say the movie is defamatory and promotes unscientific attitudes against mobile phones.
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She believes she was slandered when AA accused her of being disruptive, spilling a drink and also all the things that the flight attendant said to her on the plane -- that she was the bad person in the dispute -- all defamatory, Williams says.
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"After we originally filed suit against Pebe Sebert, she continued to make outrageous, false and defamatory statements against Dr. Luke in her widespread media campaign to damage and smear his name," Dr. Luke's lawyer Christine Lepera said Friday in a statement to PEOPLE.
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In the past three years he has also sent dozens, possibly hundreds, of defamatory letters, emails, and Facebook and Twitter messages about me to my family, friends, employers, friends' employers, professional organizations, and political offices, including the State Attorney General of New York.
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Sites are likely to be much more receptive to courts, though, and this is where the fake lawsuit comes in: by obtaining an order saying that the content is question was, say, defamatory, sites are more likely to take whatever it is down.
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"I sincerely hope when this occurs that the grotesque, defamatory media campaign which I have endured for years now will finally come to its long-overdue end," wrote Stone, one of Trump's closest political advisers in the years before he ran for president.
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In a statement, Cohen's lawyers maintained that the dossier was defamatory, but said they don't have the "time, attention, and resources needed to prosecute these matters" in light of "the events that have unfolded" — likely referring to the ongoing investigation against him.
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" In a statement given to People magazine in September 2016, Dr. Luke's lawyer, Christine Lepera, said that the complaint was the result Sebert's "outrageous, false, and defamatory statements against Dr. Luke in her widespread media campaign to damage and smear his name.
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Night and weekend bloggers were responsible for covering breaking news events and not just doing so in a way that wasn't factually wrong, defamatory, or phrased in a way that would turn the internet's ire against you, but doing so elegantly and cleverly.
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A California appeals court has tossed a lawsuit from J-M Manufacturing that accused Phillips & Cohen, a law firm representing whistleblowers who were suing the pipe manufacturer, of making defamatory statements in a press release announcing a jury verdict against J-M.
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The challenges of such reporting were underlined recently by an Australian federal court, which awarded nearly $20173,000 (about 280,000 Australian dollars) to a Chinese-Australian businessman, Chau Chak-wing, after finding that a 2015 Sydney Morning Herald article about him was defamatory.
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Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, sued Jones and Infowars in April 2018 for making allegedly defamatory statements against him and other victims' families.
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"At the time the defamatory article was published, the public record, and the Times' own reporting, had already confirmed what Robert Mueller would eventually conclude: that there was no 'deal' or 'quid pro quo' between the Campaign and Russia," the complaint claims.
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They say that the bill, which appears set for approval this year, would allow the government to obtain private citizens' data without a warrant and criminalize internet users who publish comments or content about other citizens, including political figures, which is deemed defamatory.
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At the lawsuit's announcement — which Mr. Weber's lawyers described as a "defamatory press conference" in their filing — Ms. Bloom produced another roommate, Mark Ricketson, who said that Mr. Weber also led him through an inappropriate exercise in 2005, when he was 18.
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In a letter to Musk on August 6, L. Lin Wood, a lawyer retained by Unsworth, wrote that he was " preparing a civil complaint for libel" against Musk and accused Musk of making "false and defamatory statements" suggesting Unsworth is a pedophile.
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"Quintessential Capital Management's report is unfounded, false, defamatory and misleading which results in damaging the interests of the firm and its shareholders," Folli said in a stock exchange filing on Friday, adding that it has ordered its legal advisers to defend its legal right.
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The original lawsuit against Facebook was filed by the former leader of the Austrian Green Party, Eva Glawischnig, in 2016, after she had sought to have what she claimed were defamatory postings removed from the site (and Facebook had refused to take them down).
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"Desperate, attention seeker Sinead O'Connor has maliciously published outlandish defamatory lies about comedian Arsenio Hall, falsely accusing him of supplying illegal 'hard drugs' 'over the decades' to the recently deceased music artist, Prince, and of spiking her with drugs once years ago," the lawsuit says.
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While Tesla's board members have reportedly asked Musk to stay off Twitter and focus on building cars and running his company, the 47-year-old tech luminary seems to have disregarded their guidance resurrecting a possibly defamatory remark for which he had already apologized.
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"If your client agrees to cease and desist such defamatory behavior, we are willing to engage in constructive conversations regarding the texts and photos which we have in our possession," read one of the emails sent to the legal team of Bezos' private investigation.
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Lee at the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition in Los Angeles in 2006 However, Lee's attorney, Tom Lallas, told BuzzFeed News in a statement that the "false and defamatory" allegations made by the nurses were part of scheme to shake his client down for money.
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To narrow down the possibility of offensive GIFs filtering onto their sites, both providers have rules on the impermissibility of uploading hate speech or defamatory, illegal, pornographic, or violent content, and they employ a mixture of human and automated moderating tools to enforce them.
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Palin's allegations would allow him and The New York Times to be impervious to defamation suits simply by professing at the dismissal stage that they did not remember knowing that their defamatory statements were false — even where circumstantial evidence belies that self-serving contention.
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The Japanese Supreme Court today dismissed a case against the U.S. company seeking the removal of allegedly defamatory results from its search engine, including one case of a man who sought to remove details of his arrest on child prostitution charges, Japan Times reported.
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Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones "resolved" his lawsuit with Greek yogurt giant Chobani and retracted his comments about the company on Wednesday — just a few weeks after the foodmaker sued him over what it said were false and defamatory comments.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's lawyer said on Thursday he would try to stop publication of a book that portrays an inept president in a fumbling White House and threatened legal action against former top aide Steve Bannon over "defamatory" comments in the book.
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An announcement in the Royal Gazette, signed by Thailand's police chief, said an article in the November 2015 edition of Marie Claire in France was defamatory and malicious to the royal family, affecting "national security, peace and order and the morale of the people".
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The lawsuit was filed shortly after Mr. Harder sent letters to several publications, including The Daily Mail, Politico and Liberal America, threatening legal action if they did not retract articles that Ms. Trump said contained defamatory statements, including that she was once an escort.
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Although imperial rules had relaxed a bit from the previous century, when a defamatory publication could subject the offender to "the amputation of the ears," the colonies had inherited British common law, which essentially defined as "seditious libel" anything that annoyed anyone in power.
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Netanyahu's right-wing nationalism often seems to trump his concern for anti-Semitism in Europe; in April, the Israeli prime minister congratulated Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who has pursued an anti-Semitic, defamatory campaign against philanthropist George Soros, on his re-election.
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During a Friday appearance on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Fox Business, Mr. Rollins, a senior adviser at Teneo until this year, made comments cited by the company as defamatory and a breach of its contract because they included "confidential information," according to the summons.
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Free speech should not come cheap, and where lasting and distressing damage can be done to a reputation by the publication of defamatory allegations, should the publisher not be under a more onerous obligation to prove that what he intends to publish is true?
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Here are some items that are missing from version 1.3 that can be found in the email published by Best:It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange, or his mother, or his father, is, or was ever, a member of a cult.
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" In response, a lawyer for Colonel Vindman issued a statement denouncing Ms. Blackburn's "slander" and "cowardice," writing that while the senator "fires off defamatory tweets, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman will continue to do what he has always done: serve our country dutifully and with honor.
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But defamatory statements that are personal attacks on an individual's honesty and integrity and assert or imply as fact that Dr. Mann engaged in professional misconduct and deceit to manufacture the results he desired, if false, do not enjoy constitutional protection and may be actionable.
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The piece was published in September, but as the ACLU themselves report, Swift and her legal team sent a letter to PopFront on October 25 claiming that Herning's piece was defamatory for comparing Taylor to Hitler (among other reasons) and that it should be taken down.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Tuesday ruled a 700-year-old anti-Semitic sculpture could stay on the exterior of a church in the city of Wittenberg, dismissing a claim by a member of the local Jewish community that it was defamatory and should be removed.
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Google, whose shareholders also rejected the idea of such a study, recently announced plans to rework its search engine to prevent it from directing people to bogus, defamatory claims — such as Barack Obama's attempted coup against President Trump, or President Trump's popular vote victory over Clinton.
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" But after that article was published, lawyer Allison Hart with the firm Lavely & Singer wrote to a BuzzFeed News reporter requesting that BuzzFeed News "immediately correct the false and highly defamatory headline so that it is clear that Mr. Foxx has not been accused of sexual assault.
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" Along with the clip, Mathews included legal documents in which his lawyers combat Farley's claims, arguing that she "uploaded what can only be described as a fictitious and defamatory account of alleged unilateral, abusive conduct that creates a false narrative to provoke and incite her personal followers.
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"In its latest diatribe against Bill O'Reilly, the Times printed leaked information provided by anonymous sources that is out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O'Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace," O'Reilly spokesperson, Mark Fabiani, said in response Saturday.
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However, its statement called Global Witness's report "damaging and defamatory", saying Fleurette stands to lose money from the transaction owing to a fall in copper prices and KCC's suspension of production in September 2015, both unforeseen events that occurred after the deal was signed in January.
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Now as someone who has known him for, I don&apost know, 220 years or so, I can tell you that is 225 percent false and it&aposs a slanderous and defamatory charge meant to deflect attention from liberals own abject failures in leading urban America.
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" Contestants also agree to being portrayed in a negative light thanks to editing — specifically, that "actions and the actions of others displayed in the Series may be disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing or of an otherwise unfavorable nature and may expose me to public ridicule, humiliation, or condemnation.
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And for all of Trump's defamatory statements about immigrants and pledges to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, Trump also won 28% of the Latinx vote, roughly the same percentages as the Republicans Mitt Romney (27%) and John McCain (31%) in 2012 and 2008.
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"The defamatory article has forced, and will force the campaign, to expend funds on corrective advertisements and to otherwise publicize the facts that it did not conspire with Russia in 2016 and is not seeking Russia's or North Korea's help in the 2020 election," the lawsuit states.
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"The defamatory statements Senator Leyonhjelm made and continues to make are an attack on my character, and have done considerable harm to me and my family," Ms. Hanson-Young said in a statement, released soon after filing her lawsuit with the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney.
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In a letter obtained by CNN, Cohen attorney Brent Blakely told Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti that his client had nothing to do with the alleged threat in the parking lot and demanded that Daniels cease and desist from making further "false and defamatory" statements about Cohen.
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" Lloyd Jassin, a lawyer based in New York whose specialties include publishing law, said in an email that much of what Hicks says is the character's opinion and in the United States, "an opinion is not considered defamatory unless it is couched in or implies false facts.
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Tensions between Oprah and the cattle industry came to a head in December 1997, when a group of executives filed a lawsuit against the talk show host, blaming her for millions in lost business as a result of statements about beef they believed were false and defamatory.
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A lawyer working for President Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen sent Stormy Daniels a cease-and-desist letter late Sunday night, urging the porn star to take back what the lawyer says are "false and defamatory" claims she made in a "603 Minutes" interview that same evening.
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Bambaataa's lawyer Vivian Kimi Tozaki issued the following statement last week following Savage's claims and has not spoken further: Defamatory statements were published seeking to harm my client's reputation so as to lower him in the estimation of the community while deterring others from associating or dealing with him.
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Miller and Trier each missed the last two games at the Oregon schools, Miller stepping aside after ESPN reported that he was heard on FBI wiretaps as discussing a $123,000 payment to assure Ayton enrolled at Arizona, a claim he labeled "false and defamatory" in a statement Thursday afternoon.
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" Banned content includes that which is "defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or place a targeted individual or group in harm's way.
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"After the substance of Mr. Herman's previous defamatory and fabricated filing in Hawaii was disproved based on unassailable evidence, Mr. Herman's desperation has led him to fabricate these new anonymous accusations against Mr. Singer, which we will also prove to be completely false," Singer's attorney said in a statement.
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In a letter last month to Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Robert Menendez said that evidence they received from FINRA showed that the bank may have filed defamatory statements to retaliate against the employees for questioning the sales tactics.
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" Earlier this year, WikiLeaks sent an email to a number of reporters, instructing them that it was "false and defamatory" to write more than 100 statements about Assange, including that he "drinks to excess" or that "Julian Assange does not use cutlery or does not wash his hands.
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Chobani sued Jones on April 24, accusing him of posting false and defamatory information alleging that the company was linked to an assault case involving refugee children that had nothing to do with the company and that Chobani was linked to an increase in tuberculosis in the area.
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And he concludes that the relevant E.U. law does not speak to, and thus does not prevent courts that deem content defamatory in their own country from issuing orders that would make Facebook remove content posted by or appearing in the newsfeeds of users all across the world.
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New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign on Wednesday escalated its feud with the news media to new heights, filing a libel lawsuit against The New York Times in which it alleged the newspaper "knowingly published false and defamatory statements" in a March 2019 opinion piece.
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Countless recent cases—from Elon Musk's "pedo guy" saga to congressperson Devin Nunes suing accounts that impersonate his mom and his cow—have involved defamatory statements made in cellphone videos or in writing (more than once the writing was just emoji) or comments posted on Yelp and Twitter.
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In those circumstances, an obligation such as the one described in paragraphs 41 and 45 above, on the one hand — in so far as it also extends to information with equivalent content — appears to be sufficiently effective for ensuring that the person targeted by the defamatory statements is protected.
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" In a statement, the campaign's senior legal adviser, Jenna Ellis, asserted that Frankel's assertions "were and are 100 percent false and defamatory," and that the Times published his piece knowing their inaccuracy "for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign, while misleading its own readers in the process.
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In 2014, a Virginia court ruled that Yelp would have to identify seven anonymous reviewers that a cleaning company said left defamatory reviews, and in 2017, a UK court ordered Twitter to disclose the identity of an anonymous user alleged to have made offensive statements about the complainant's staff.
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In short, Nunes argues in his lawsuit that Twitter is a content creator and thus Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which states that Twitter doesn't have to determine what's defamatory and what's not and basically prevents a massive speech crackdown) shouldn't apply to the social media giant.
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The music repository's ToS forbids activity that's "offensive, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, threatening, or obscene," or "is intended to or does harass or bully other users," but considering there's no meaningful community element, its decision to remove 27 Southern Poverty Law Center-identified "hate bands" is welcome but not hugely impactful.
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" Oliver's segment (which featured a giant talking squirrel, so you know it's good) lead to a lawsuit filed by Murray, who claimed in a statement that "the false and defamatory statements in this broadcast severely and destructively impact Mr. Murray, and all of Murray Energy ... as well as coal mining itself.
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That is why you apparently performed an entirely inadequate investigation to test the veracity of these false and malicious allegations, including why these two individuals waited, in one case, 11 years, and, in another case, more than three decades, before deciding to come forward with these false and defamatory statements.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of about a dozen women who previously accused President-elect Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances filed a lawsuit against him in New York on Tuesday, alleging he had made false and defamatory statements about her in rejecting the accusation, causing her emotional and economic harm.
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The Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled today that Facebook pages controlled by the Australian media companies Fairfax, Nationwide News, and Sky News all contained defamatory content and that they should be held liable despite the fact that none of the news organizations published the content to Facebook themselves.
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The aim of the law, which has always been an integral part of Thai criminal laws since ancient times, is to protect the rights and reputations of the King, Queen, Heir-apparent and the Regent because noblesse oblige prevents Their Majesties from seeking legal redress against the subjects for defamatory remarks.
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It's thus been no great stretch for our centrist-liberal pundit class to zero in on "identity politics" as the spoiler of first resort for what it deems a viable Democratic coalition—an all-purpose defamatory shorthand that serves to strategically marginalize mobilizations against anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and homophobia.
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"We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws, so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts," Mr. Trump said during a public portion of a cabinet meeting in the White House.
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However, while NYT does not and cannot review every Submission and is not responsible for the content of these messages, NYT reserves the right to delete, move, or edit Submissions that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable.
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For example, a Guardian article from 2007, nearly a decade into texting's reign as a primary form of communication, questioned whether texting's "ephemeral nature" would mean it qualified as slander (spoken defamation) or libel (published defamation) and whether the mobile carrier would be the party held liable for transmitting defamatory messages.
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"This is a cynical attempt by a hostile AG's office to generate defamatory headlines to try to torpedo a mutually beneficial settlement that is supported by so many other states and would result in billions of dollars going to communities and individuals across the country that need help," the statement said.
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"This is a cynical attempt by a hostile AG's office to generate defamatory headlines to try to torpedo a mutually beneficial settlement that is supported by so many other states and would result in billions of dollars going to communities and individuals across the country that need help," Sackler said.
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The court determined that Yelp and sites like it do have the standing to assert First Amendment rights on behalf of their users, but the company will still have to turn over documents that could expose this user's identity because Montagna has shown evidence that the review was defamatory until proven otherwise.
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"After the substance of Mr. Herman's previous defamatory and fabricated filing in Hawaii was disproved based on unassailable evidence, Mr. Herman's desperation has led him to fabricate these new anonymous accusations against Mr. Singer, which we will also prove to be completely false," Singer's attorney said in a statement at the time.
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" The first clause of the guidelines explicitly rejects content that is "defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or place a targeted individual or group in harm's way.
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Sullivan, where it was ruled that in order for published information about a public figure to be considered libelous or defamatory, it must be made with "'actual malice'—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not," according to the 1964 decision.
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"These statements were not only false and defamatory, but outrageously so, and were published by defendants with knowledge of their actual falsity or in reckless disregard of the truth for the apparent purpose of creating a salacious story designed to drive internet traffic to HuffPost's website," the lawsuit said, according to USA Today.
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But there should not be an obligation for platforms to identify equivalent defamatory comments that have been posted by any user, with the advocate general opining that such a broad requirement would not ensure a fair balance between the fundamental rights concerned — flagging risks to free expression and free access to information.
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Specifically, the European Court of Justice will decide whether European Union law allows a national court to order Facebook to remove posts deemed defamatory as well as identical or similar content — and if so, whether this order can apply to content posted and viewable by users in countries outside of the court's jurisdiction.
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Courts, lawyers argue, should also place greater weight on the steps those who are sued take to mitigate damages, like swiftly deleting a defamatory tweet, posting a clarification, or other actions that show the person "may regret posting a statement that the defendant may have impulsively published in the first place," says Burke.
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"The purpose of this letter is to obtain assurance that you will refrain from any further dissemination, publication or republication of false and defamatory statements concerning Mr. Reed, including any allegations that he 'cheated' at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas," wrote Peter Ginsberg, a partner at the firm, according to Golfweek.
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Because Ms. McDougal would most likely be considered a public figure, she would have to prove not just that Mr. Carlson's statements were false and defamatory, but also that he acted with "actual malice" — meaning that he knew or should have known that they were false — in order to win her case.
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Now Mr. Asher, who denied the allegations, has filed a lawsuit against the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the group's executive director, Lin Oliver, claiming that Ms. Oliver and the organization made false and defamatory statements about him that torpedoed his career, and caused financial harm and intentional emotional distress.
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Subject: Defamatory accusations, account termination, work communication suspension Date: 4/2/2018City: New Bern, North CarolinadWhile YouTube is permitted by TOS to terminate any account for any reason, it is libelous as well as cyber bullying to, on multiple occasions, accuse users (as they did to me) for violating their Guidelines when I did not.
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According to the lawsuit, which was filed in April in the Southern District of New York, Dershowitz -- who used to represent Epstein -- knowingly made "false and malicious defamatory statements" against Virginia Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been a victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Epstein when she was underage.
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But foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the "ulterior motives" of anti-China forces were behind the "unfounded" slandering of anti-terrorism measures, "Any defamatory rumors are futile," Lu said in a statement, adding that the situation in Xinjiang was stable with communities of all ethnicities getting along and good momentum in economic development.
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"My aim was not to drag a politician before the courts but to make clear that ... there are limits to criticism of the work done by journalists and the media, namely the point at which it becomes personally defamatory," Wolf said in a blog posting announcing that he had reached a settlement with Strache.
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"Twitter, by its actions, intended to generate and proliferate the false and defamatory statements about Plaintiff in order to influence the outcome of the 2018 Congressional election and to intimidate Plaintiff and interfere with his important investigation of corruption by the Clinton campaign and alleged Russian involvement in the 85033 Presidential Election," the lawsuit reads.
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"Twitter, by its actions, intended to generate and proliferate the false and defamatory statements about Plaintiff in order to influence the outcome of the 2018 Congressional election and to intimidate Plaintiff and interfere with his important investigation of corruption by the Clinton campaign and alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election," the lawsuit reads.
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Avenatti argued that Trump's tweet, posted April 18, "attacks the veracity of her account" of the incident and Trump's statement was "false and defamatory, and that the tweet was defamation ... because it charged her with committing a serious crime," Federal District Judge S. James Otero wrote in his opinion dismissing the lawsuit in October.
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Of equally grave concern, if the advocate general's opinion is embraced by the European Court of Justice, providers and internet platforms like Facebook could be required to search for and remove content that's deemed defamatory in one country even when it is posted by or simply appears in the newsfeeds of residents of other countries.
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Senator McSally pressed Mr. Bernhardt over reports of sexual harassment in the Interior Department's National Park Service, particularly over the case of Christine Lehnertz, the first female superintendent of the Grand Canyon, who was hired to investigate reports of sexual harassment but resigned this year after her attorney said she received "malicious and defamatory" treatment.
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ET. It's directed by Jenny Carchman, produced by Liz Garbus and Justin Wilkes... And it's still in the works... It'll run approximately 30 minutes on Sunday... Trumpworld's threat: Harder calls the story "highly defamatory" When the story dropped on Tuesday, many journalists commented -- in awe and envy -- on the super-confident tone of the story.
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Greg GianforteGregory Richard GianforteHouse Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 House GOP fears retirement wave will lead to tsunami Trump declares Gorka 'wins big' after clash with reporters in Rose Garden MORE (R-Mont.) and members of his campaign team, demanding that they stop making "false and defamatory statements" about the incident.
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Moore's suit alleged that people working for the firm had hacked into Dig Dirt's websites hundreds of times, posted defamatory messages about him online, "and tried to cover it all up by doing their evil deeds under an e-identity swiped from an Alexandria, Virginia, furniture store owner," according to a report in Wired at the time.
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This comes after Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz sent a letter to the Times on Wednesday in which he calls the article "nothing more than a politically motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy," says it "is reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se," and threatens "all available actions and remedies" if the paper doesn't retract it with an apology.
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"You have breached the Agreement by, among other things, communicating with author Michael Wolff about Mr. Trump, his family members, and the Company, disclosing Confidential Information to Mr. Wolff, and making disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff about Mr. Trump, his family members, and the Company," read the letter to Bannon.
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It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange has ever insisted on Russian bodyguardsBest also ran both versions through a difference checker, further highlighting the discrepancies between the email she published and the document WikiLeaks released on MondayWikiLeaks did not respond to a Gizmodo request for comment on the accuracy of the email Best published.
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CNN has unearthed additional audio from Minnesota representative Jason Lewis' radio show of the congressman saying the welfare system made blacks "addicted" to government programs, arguing it was worse for them than Jim Crow, and said that African Americans had an "entitlement mentality" which led to violence in their community, among other defamatory comments against black people.
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And while piling on the Post may feel good — again, I think a newspaper that can stand up to President Donald Trump can also protect a reporter who hasn't published something defamatory — the Post certainly isn't the only publication that has found itself disciplining one of its employees for a tweet or apologizing for one of their tweets.
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"You have breached the Agreement by, among other things, communicating with author Michael Wolff about Mr. Trump, his family members, and the Company [the Trump campaign], disclosing Confidential Information to Mr. Wolff, and making disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff about Mr. Trump, his family members," Harder wrote, according to ABC News.
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A motion to dismiss the case was filed Wednesday to the U.S. District Court in California's Central District where Vernon Unsworth, a UK citizen, filed a complaint in September alleging Musk used defamatory language when Musk tweeted Unsworth was a "pedo guy," then later sent an email to a BuzzFeed reporter accusing the diver of being involved in child sex trafficking.
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PayPal's user agreement stipulates that you may not use your account to "to display, upload, modify, publish, distribute, disseminate, transmit, update or share any information" that "[i]s grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever," it reads.
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" The lawsuit, which was filed in Arizona, where Stanhope lives, also states: "Defendants knew the statements about Heard in the Defamatory Article were completely untrue and fabricated, and they did not care, because their only concern was helping Depp by trashing the reputation of his wife, who loved Depp, even though she had been repeatedly physically and verbally abused by him.
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Dylan Voller, an Australian youth prisoner, is seen being abused in a Northern Territory detention center in 2015 during undercover news footage broadcast in 2016Screenshot: ABC News/YouTubeAn Australian Court has ruled that media organizations are liable for anything defamatory that's published to the public Facebook pages of those media companies, even if it's just posted by a random Facebook user.
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