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Secessionist party agrees to dissolve after lawsuit
When the leader of the South Carolina Secessionist Party announced in January that the group would be disbanding, he told news outlets that he was doing so because the group had taken a turn he...
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Allegations of racism not defamatory
A group of former high school football players won’t be able to bring a defamation suit against the owners of a Charleston alt-weekly newspaper that accused them of behaving like “racist douchebags”...
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Father’s $1 verdicts for false sex abuse allegations upheld
A South Carolina federal judge has denied a request to set aside a verdict in which a jury concluded that two daughters had falsely accused their father of sexually abusing them and awarded the...
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Attorney, couple to share $2M settlement from defamation suit
A Charleston County couple and a Charleston divorce attorney will share a $2 million settlement after resolving a defamation claim against a man who allegedly placed defamatory signs about them...
View ArticleMan sues police for defamation after charges dropped
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man whose charges were dropped after police body camera footage showed he did not fight an officer who attacked him is suing...
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High-profile high school football coach was public figure
A jury verdict in favor of a former high school football coach and athletic director who sued his former employer for defamation has been reversed by the South Carolina Court of Appeals, which...
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Judge awards $32.4M in RICO, defamation case
A man who alleges that he was extorted and defamed by a Slovak businessman has been awarded $32.4 million default judgment by a federal judge who found the businessman liable on two counts of...
View ArticleJury awards $50 million to SC mayor in defamation lawsuit
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — A jury in South Carolina awarded $50 million in damages to a mayor in a defamation case against a longtime critic. The Beaufort County jury decided Thursday that Skip...
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Bluffton mayor awarded $50M in defamation claim
Beaufort County jury has awarded $50 million to the mayor of Bluffton after finding that she had been defamed for years by an outspoken critic of local government officials. On Feb. 3, the jury...
View ArticleDefamation suit against competitor over false claims, $2.5M settlement
Action: Defamation Injuries alleged: Damage to reputation and character; loss of value and business in the industry Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Withheld Jury and/or judge: Withheld Amount: $2.5...
View ArticleBundy ordered to pay $50M-plus in defamation case
A far-right activist who led the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, an associate and three of their groups must pay over $50 million in damages after a hospital in Idaho won a defamation...
View ArticleJudge dismisses Trump lawsuit against CNN
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn...
View ArticleJudge orders Giuliani to pay fees in defamation case
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday held Rudy Giuliani liable in a defamation lawsuit brought by two Georgia election workers who say they were falsely accused of fraud, entering a default...
View ArticleJudge dismisses state lawmaker’s defamation suit
OMAHA, Neb. — A judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Nebraska lawmaker against a conservative political action committee that labeled her a child “groomer” and sexual abuser in online posts,...
View ArticleJudge limits Trump lawyers’ arguments in defamation trial
NEW YORK — A judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t...
View ArticleCourt dismisses professor’s lawsuit against student newspaper
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A judge Monday dismissed a University of Notre Dame’s professor’s defamation lawsuit against a student-run publication over news coverage of her abortion-rights advocacy. St. Joseph...
View ArticleTrump briefly testifies in defamation lawsuit
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump was on and off the witness stand at a jury trial Thursday in less than 3 minutes but not before breaking a judge’s rules on what he could say by claiming that a...
View ArticleDefamation settlement prompts website’s shutdown
A far-right, unofficial Catholic media website has agreed to pay $500,000 to a New Hampshire priest who sued for defamation over a 2019 article that the site now disavows. The website also is planning...
View ArticleOpinion Digest: Coach awarded $200K; court splits on defamation definition
AT A GLANCE Jeffrey L. Cruce, Berkeley High School coach and athletic director, was relieved of those duties in December 2015 and made a guidance counselor after a challenging season. An email sent to...
View ArticleSandy Hook families ask judge to liquidate Jones’ company
Relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are asking a bankruptcy judge to liquidate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, including Infowars, instead of allowing him...
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