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Curtis Pub. Co. v. Butts (1967) … held that the head football coach at the University of Georgia (who was privately paid and not a public employee) was a "public figure" in a defamation case ...
The South Carolina Supreme Court recently decided that a high school football coach was not a public official or a public figure for purposes of a defamation claim. The decision meant the coach ...
Facebook will determine who qualifies as an involuntary public figure on a case-by-case basis by its policy team. "The policy team will assess an involuntary public figure’s engagement with fame ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - How do you defame a public figure? Not easily. The First Lady of France, Valerie Truweiler, just withdrew a lawsuit she'd filed against writers who had said that she was the ...
Public-figure plaintiffs generally have to prove more to win their case than do private-figure plaintiffs.With the discussion continuing to heat up this morning, ...
How a public figure should behave April 21, 2015 More than 10 years ago The April 18 Style article " ESPN a leader in sports, staff suspensions " shed light on ESPN reporter Britt McHenry's ...
William Baker is a freelance writer living in Cambridge, MA. His work has appeared in Popular Science, the Boston Globe Magazine, the New York Daily News, Boston Magazine, The Weekly Dig and a ...
Public figures "have voluntarily exposed themselves to increased risk of injury from defamatory falsehood" and boast increased access to media to "counteract false statements." ...
Heidi Cruz speaking at a campaign event in Oshkosh, WI, last Saturday. When Donald Trump tweeted that he might “spill the beans” about Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, after a Cruz-supporting PAC ...
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