This piece was published in partnership with The Nation. What if you lived in a country where you could be jailed for criticizing a public official? What if that country were the United States? In May ...

Defamation law gives people an avenue to protect their reputations. Defamation law gives people an avenue to protect their reputations. Defamation law gives people an avenue to protect their ...

The constitutionality of New Hampshire’s rarely used criminal defamation statute is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit as it considers whether the arrest of an Exeter man after ...

From Frese v. Formella, decided today by the First Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Jeffrey Howard, joined by Judges William Kayatta and Rogeriee Thompson: New Hampshire's criminal defamation statute ...

CONCORD, N.H. — A federal court today ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union’s constitutional challenge to New Hampshire’s criminal defamation law can proceed. The law makes it a misdemeanor to ...

the jury finding both johnny Depp and Amber heard liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other. Monte norman won £30,000 in damages from the johnny Depp and Amber heard lawsuit to the ...