From the Summer 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 11. Most courts adjudicating product disparagement lawsuits have assumed that the legal element known as “actual malice” — a constitutional ...

As the Sullivan doctrine faces growing controversy, Actual Malice reminds us of the stakes of the case that shaped American reporting and public discourse as we know it. The Dark Side of Defamation ...

Ever since the landmark case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), to succeed on a defamation claim, ...

From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27. Going to jail for refusing to… From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27. Going to jail for refusing to reveal ...

A’darius Williams was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing Brandon Smith days before Smith's Manchester High football team played for the state championship.

An attorney for the man charged in connection with a quadruple shooting that injured four people — including a sheriff’s ...

By Pravin Bowry Ever heard of a creature of law called ‘malice aforethought’? Absence or presence of malice aforethought is the only differentiating legal ingredient between the offences of ...