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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-671 Byron Johnson v. Kaija Freborg Minnesota 2023-12-21 Denied Response Waived defamation first-amendment online-speech private-figure public-concern sexual-assault Where one private figure accuses another private figure of sexual assault in an online posting, is that "a matter of public concern" under the First A…
21-1412 Pamela Young, et al. v. Wendy Rogers, et al. Arizona 2022-05-03 Denied Response Waived defamation false-light first-amendment milkovich milkovich-standard political-speech private-figure reasonable-reader 1. Whether the First Amendment immunizes a political candidate from a private figure's defamation and false light claims where the candidate publishes…
19-1345 Jon Butcher v. Cady Vishniac Massachusetts 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived defamation defamation-law due-process-clause first-amendment gertz-precedent gertz-v-robert-welch private-concern private-figure republication republication-doctrine 1. Does either the First Amendment or this Court's holding in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 341 (1974) impose any limitations upon common…