media-liability
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-770 | Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment | As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al… |
| 25-268 | Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. | Connecticut | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-sanction constitutional-review defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure | This case presents multiple constitutional questions of first impression involving the use of a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction for sma… |
| 22-1125 | Don Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | actual-malice constitutional defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure summary-judgment | (1) whether the actual malice standard imposed on public figure plaintiffs in defamation cases should be replaced; and (2) whether the framework for s… |
| 21-1030 | Peter Brimelow v. The New York Times Company | Second Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy media-entity media-liability new-york-times-standard race-intelligence-crime | Whether the Sullivan Malice rule should be abandoned, especially where it serves to spare government policy from criticism and shelters a powerful med… |
| 21-298 | Bobby Wilson v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., et al. | Arizona | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | context defamation false-publication first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech malice media-liability speech-protection | 1. Is a per se false publication that was proven fabricated solely by the defendant sufficient proof alone of malice? Liability for the publication of… |
| 19-6544 | Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations | 1. Can the Court stay of this matter until final resolution of a related and dependant money damages case, Cunningham v. Washington County et al., 9th… |
| 18-155 | James H. Brady v. Associated Press Telecom, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | accountability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-interference due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct media media-liability press-freedom standing takings | 1. Was it wrong and a direct conflict with this Court when the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court Decision that stated that News Agencies ha… |