defamation cases

Shortly after Trump won the election, and I was busy finding doomsday prep types to start hanging out with, I was with my friend who was getting married soon. He started talking about how he might have kids with his soon to be wife. I told him he was crazy to bring a kid into the world of Trump...

Two mates apparently have fallen out. Lou Vincent says Chris asked him to fix five cricket matches. Looks bleak for Cairns, but he won a case a few years ago for defamation. New Zealanders (not kiwis please) may be following this, I thought I would just see what people think...

In some positive news the Canadian government agrees that a group of professional Conservative trolls were lying about the work of a scientist. http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/07/climate-scientist-wins-defamation-suit-against-national-post/ Doesn't happen every day.

The British court system has said that Wakefield's co-author is to be exonerated from all defamation due to the actions of the GMC in striking his medical standing. There is no practical conclusion, as Walker-Smith retired in 2001, but the news article suggests that this may have a great...

A Bostonian, Abdulrahman Alharbi, whom the right-wing loon Glen Beck singled out and accused of being involved in the terror bombings during the Boston Marathon last year, has filed a lawsuit against the aforementioned loon. Peter Haley, Alharbi’s lawyer stated in his filing: Apparently...

So everyone's favourite tax evading felon, young Earth creationist, doctoral faker and failed dinosaur amusement park owner had decided to object to being described as a "convicted tax fraudster" (despite being convicted of 58 charges relating to tax evasion and currently being in prison) and of...