libel
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23A543 | Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. | New York | 2023-12-13 | Presumed Complete | defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5911 | Jeffrey Rivard v. Brattleboro Reformer, et al. | Vermont | 2023-10-30 | Denied | IFP | false-light first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech journalists-privilege libel negligence | This matter is a US 1st Amendment Constitutional issue Freedom of Speech. The matter is overlooked and misapprehended by Vermont Superior Court Judge … |
| 22-82 | Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det | Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar… |
| 21-7955 | Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty | 1) Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner? 2) Do federa… |
| 21-343 | Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased | Massachusetts | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance | In Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc 418 US 323(1974), Justice Powell, • t in reference to Defamation/Libel claims of a private individual concerning an issue… |
| 20-7537 | Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements | Is New Jersey's "cyber-harassment" statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4.1, constitutionally invalid because it lacks a scienter requirement and relies on a "reas… |
| 20-1073 | John Does 1-10 v. Debra Haaland, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights congressional-immunity constitutional-law due-process federal-immunity free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-privilege libel speech-and-debate-clause | Is election to Congress a license to libel anyone, anywhere, anytime, even when the libel is not in response to a press inquiry, does not concern pend… |
| 20-1063 | Shkelzën Berisha v. Guy Lawson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | actual-malice constitutional-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment libel libel-law mckee-v-cosby public-figure | The question presented is whether this Court should overrule the "actual malice" requirement it imposed on public figure defamation plaintiffs. |
| 20-606 | Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations | California | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel | 1) Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an … |
| 19-1383 | Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment | This Court has held that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press requires that when a plaintiff sues a media defendant for libel, base… |
| 19-6442 | William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest | Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker (NPR stated: "Nobody's ever heard of this guy. "), who fails to meet the require… |
| 19-5726 | Wingrove Robinson v. Raintree Tower Apartments, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process libel standing | AM I ENTITLED TO MY AWARD MONEY FROM FEMA ASSISTANCE RENTAL FROM HUD E MY APT FROM ABUSE COMPENSATION HARRASSMENT, LIBEL AND LOSS OF USE MY MONE |
| 19-5533 | Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district free-speech judicial-conduct legal-issue libel libel-law maine maine-jurisdiction standing | Has judicial conduct in the federal district of Maine reached a cellarage to be gazed at only across the barriers of libel law? |