Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Slander is a legal form of defamation. A statement only becomes slander if it is false and causes serious damage. Unlike libel ...

Conservative cable channel Newsmax paid $40 million to settle a 2020 election defamation lawsuit brought by voting systems ...

South Caroline Rep. Nancy Mace (R) was sued for defamation Friday by one of the four men she publicly accused of rape and ...

Jane Doe said that though her rape lawsuit was dismissed, she is sticking by her accusations and that the rapper is trying to ...

The highest-profile legal battle, of course, involves It Ends With Us director-actor Justin Baldoni’s defamation suit against ...

Defamation is an intentional ‘act’ through which harm or injury is caused to an individual or group, alive or deceased by way ...

R. Kelly’s assistant's defamation lawsuit against Netflix and Lifetime, over her portrayal in "Surviving R. Kelly," was dismissed by a federal judge.

Libel is “the written or permanent form of defamation,” per Gutterman. This includes material published by “traditional media, broadcast, or posted in modern or digital media.” ...