Sentences with phrase «defamatory claim»

It was T. S. Eliot who asserted that April is the cruellest month, but he offered thin evidence to back his clearly defamatory claim.

This requires that Mann show that the allegedly defamatory comments were made with actual malice — i.e. actual knowledge that the allegdly defamatory claims were false or reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the claims made.

Not exact matches

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

In the email, a copy of which is posted on the publication's website, Mr. Harder listed several statements he claimed were defamatory and demanded that the publication «immediately and permanently remove each of these statements from the story, and print a full and complete retraction and apology, with as prominent placement as the original story.»

In an email, the lawyer, Charles J. Harder, said Ms. Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, «has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an «escort» in the 1990s.»

Last week, Thiel's lawyer - for - hire, Charles J. Harder, sent Gawker a letter on behalf of Ivari International's owner and namesake, Edward Ivari, in which Harder claims that Feinberg's story was «false and defamatory,» invaded Ivari's privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress, and committed «tortious interference» with Ivari's business relations.

In particular, User shall not: i. Provide, post or otherwise distribute content which is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly inflammatory, false, misleading, fraudulent, inaccurate, unfair, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any 3rd - party, is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or community; ii.

But the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, dismissed the claims - which date back to Argentina's so - called Dirty War from 1976 to 1983 - as false and defamatory.

An insurgent Democratic challenger claims he was offered a bribe to get out of his race against 24 - year veteran Manhattan - Brooklyn Rep. Jerry Nadler — who immediately called the charge «defamatory.»

«The advertisement targets Senator Larkin and does so by the use of false and and defamatory statements and claims, made with reckless disregard for the truth,» the letter charges.

While, yes, that is pretty defamatory, the claim was that this was being run in the basement of the pizza restaurant.

The University of NSW has now established a working party to investigate claims of sexual, racial and defamatory abuse on its e - mail system.

Marty Singer, a lawyer for the director, whose movies include The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, Jack The Giant Slayer and the first two X-Men films, described the claims, filed in a lawsuit in Hawaii, as «absurd and defamatory».

Ellora's Cave sued Dear Author, claiming that a blog post was defamatory.

But I hadn't talked about the fact that what EC claimed was defamatory in the lawsuit paperwork wasn't actually what Jane Litte wrote.

a claim that any use of the Petzam Site by you or someone using your mobile device (or account, where applicable) infringes on any intellectual property right of any third party, or any right of personality or publicity, is libelous or defamatory, or otherwise results in injury or damage to any third party;

Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, to be the subject of infringing activity, or that is claimed to be defamatory and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.

Mann sued Steyn, National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and CEI analyst Randy Simberg in 2012 over what he claims are defamatory articles accusing him of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

A recent highlight saw Bainbridge act for a national charity in a dispute with a former employee who breached a compromise agreement by making statements to an international journal, and representing QCR Recycling Equipment against a competitor that allegedly made repeated defamatory statements and malicious falsehood claims.

She claims she is entitled to «substantial damages» from the critical scribe for what she believes is libel (libel is when defamatory statements are put into writing).

She held that Morris had failed to establish a prima facie case of defamation, since her statement of claim did not set out the specific words from the postings that she alleged were defamatory.

In his statement of claim, Kinsella says McCurry tweeted the allegedly defamatory material to voice his distaste for the private prosecution after court proceedings in September.

In his claim, Gillis argued the committee merely rubber stamped the trial judge's finding and alleged Richard had made defamatory statements in the complaint, knowing they were false.

If someone genuinely defames someone, and there is a meritorious claim against them, would the claim would be struck out merely because the defamatory speech related to a matter of public interest and the plaintiff (respondent on the motion) couldn't prove that there was no possible defence, or they couldn't prove the damages they suffered were sufficiently serious?

Foda claims the defamatory comments have caused irreparable harm to his reputation and medical practice and caused him emotional distress and anxiety.

Image searches for «Melbourne Crime» also provided a picture of the plaintiff, which he claimed was defamatory.

A. applied for summary judgment on the grounds that it was plain and obvious the defamation claim could not succeed because the statement alleged to be defamatory was protected by absolute privilege and the remainder of the pleadings disclosed no reasonable cause of action.

She was found liable for sending defamatory emails to their other neighbors and to the staff of their children's elementary school, claiming the couple were swingers and enjoyed «nude hot tub parties.»

You claim that calling someone a «house negro» is not defamatory.

On a false light claim, the Court decides as a matter of law whether the program conveyed (a) statements of fact that are (b) defamatory or highly offensive to a reasonable person and (c) actually false or convey a false impression of the plaintiff.

With the help of an Illinois injury attorney, Ottawa couple Donald and Janet Maxon filed a motion urging Ottawa Publishing to release the names of two commentators they claim made defamatory statements about them.

She had accused Richard Roberts of making defamatory remarks when he claimed she inappropriately took an email list from the organization when she was fired last January.

In Goldhar v. Haaretz.com et al., Justice Faieta allowed an Ontario claim to continue for allegedly defamatory statements posted online by an Israeli - based newspaper organization.

In many cases, the people who read the allegedly defamatory statements will be located across the planet, meaning that a publisher of such materials may find themselves having to defend claims brought far away from their actual home jurisdiction.

In a private security contractor's defamation suit against the U.S. involving an allegedly defamatory email, the Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses the suit because the plaintiff contractor failed to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Marjala's suit claimed the two, as well as show guest Lee Armstrong, all made defamatory comments about him.

Ms. Este further claims the defendants conspired to carry out a «campaign of character assassination through the widespread publication and dissemination of defamatory statements».

(a) whether the claims are statute - barred (albeit the specific facts will vary from case to case); (b) whether the publications concerning blacklist entries were made on occasions of qualified privilege; and (c) whether inclusion on the blacklist was in itself defamatory

The need to collate as much information as possible in order to properly analyse the potential consequences of a defamatory statement may discourage claimants from bringing claims promptly.

This situation appears to be distinct from previous claims against bulletin boards, ISPs and blog hosts that contain defamatory information or trademark infringement.

an Order requiring the defendants to assist the plaintiff in obtaining the removal of electronic copies of the defamatory expression and injurious falsehoods complained of in this statement of claim: (i) from Internet Search engine caches; (ii) from any other electronic database where they are accessible; and (iii) from other Intemet websites operated by third parties, whether or not those third parties were originally expressly or impliedly authorized by the defendants or one or more of them to republish the aforesaid defamatory expression and injurious falsehoods;

The email made reference to two expert reports provided by the plaintiff in terms he claims were defamatory.

the appellants had refused, despite request therefor, to remove the defamatory statements from their website until approximately nine months after being served with the respondent's first notice of libel and seven months after the delivery of his statement of claim;

What is controversial is the extent to which claimants can now circumvent the rule in Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269 — by which interim injunctions in defamation are difficult to obtain — and restrain publication of information which is defamatory and private, whether true or false, by framing their claim as misuse of private information.

The defamatory comments are believed to originate from a former client, who allegedly harassed Niemela, according to the statement of claim.

The claimant was an Icelandic businessman, who wished to bring a claim concerning allegedly defamatory material on the defendant's website.

It seeks injunctions forcing the search engine to remove the «defamatory snippets,» which are referred to in the claim as «false, malicious, and defamatory,» as well as seeks damages for libel and slander.

Wallbridge named Williams as a defendant claiming that Williams was vicariously liable for the defamatory comments, misrepresentations and allegations of Brunning.

Representing a leading sporting organisation on a potential claim against an individual who was sending abusive and defamatory emails to senior staff and posting defamatory content on Facebook.

For purposes of this motion, he focusses on the suggestion that the trial judge erred in finding that the NOT was defamatory, that the defamation claim was properly met by the defence of qualified privilege, and that the trial judge exceeded his jurisdiction by making the mandatory order to amend the NOT.