Allow me to put my most sympathetic reaction to the Walter Duranty Prize Board’s predicament in text form: Bwa-hahahahahahaha. This saga starts with the Pulitzer Prize board’s refusal to withdraw the awards it granted the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for their coverage of what turned out to be a hoax about...
Motown legend Smokey Robinson has filed a $500m (£370m) defamation lawsuit against four former housekeepers who have accused the singer of sexual assault. The legal case filed by the star and his wife Frances on Wednesday in California accused the women of fabricating the sexual assault allegations as part of an “extortionate” lawsuit. The Robinsons...
Getty Images Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case has been called the “trial of the century” Australia’s most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes. A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered four unarmed Afghans were true,...
After deliberating for about two hours a jury in Sarah Palin’s case against the NY Times sided with the newspaper, finding the Times was not liable for defaming Palin back in 2017. The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict after lawyers for Palin and the newspaper delivered closing arguments at...
Sarah Palin is back in court this week as she is once again suing the NY Times for defamation over an editorial which accused her of inciting the 2011 Tucson shooting. If you’re having deja vu that’s because this case already unfolded back in February 2022. That trial ended when Judge Jed S. Rakoff decided...