Libel laws are tort laws that give you the right to pursue a civil lawsuit when someone harms you by defaming you. Libel is one of two types of defamation.

Gavin Newsom is taking Fox News to court, filing a $787 million defamation lawsuit over what he calls a deceptively edited video clip aired by host Jesse Watters. The segment, Newsom says, wrongly ...

However, the law often treats other aspects of these torts like defamation, such as by applying the same statute of limitations periods and principles or applying similar privileges and defenses ...

Damages in tort law are overwhelmingly linked to a plaintiff's right to redress injury, and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that clarity on what damages ought to be available to a defamation ...

Defamation falls under tort law, which is the branch of law that deals with civil matters. It aims to address wrongdoing against parties and may award them monetary compensation.

The new anti-SLAPP law creates a mechanism for expedited resolution of a defamation or ancillary tort designed to quiet public debate, featuring a presumptive stay, interlocutory appeal as of ...

In short, the Florida Supreme Court was right to recognize that a tort of false light is duplicative of existing remedies under defamation law, and its extension is likewise unnecessary here. * Joe ...

Alberta Gains New Tort of Harassment and Limits Defamation By Government Actors—Online and IRL. ... The common law can recognize new torts to keep the law "aligned with the evolution of society ...