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

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

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Explore the differences between slander and libel, understand legal implications, and see real-world examples to better grasp ...

Donald Trump hates to lose unless he wins by losing. So, the president is quick to portray himself as a victim, especially when he thinks he has been defamed. On Wednesday, in response to the ...

Thirty-two individuals have been arrested for online libel while 276 cases were referred for prosecution for the same offense ...

On February 13, 1903, a peasant in the Russian town of Dubossary found the body of a 14-year-old boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, in a garden by the Dniester River. Rybachenko had disappeared the Sunday ...

In the summer of 2008, a West Virginia woman called a local television station to report that her four-year-old son… In the summer of 2008, a West Virginia woman called a local television station to ...

Those of us who work in journalism understand that when we tell people that we’re worried about what the Trump administration is doing to press freedom -- and particularly about the threat of changes ...

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

Manila – Veteran Philippine journalist and Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa has been dealt another blow in her years-long legal battles. On Friday, the country's Court of Appeals upheld an earlier ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...