defamation

“Defamation is not intended to shut survivors down, and if that’s the message that the public takes from this, we’re going to have a major problem,” says Sarah Klein, an attorney and survivor. She joined LX News host Tabitha Lipkin to discuss the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial verdict.

After a six-week trial, a civil jury in Virginia deliberated defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. The trial has featured lurid testimony with explicit details about the movie stars’ short and volatile marriage. But what was the case really about? And what did the jury need to decide?

It’s not clear what line of questioning Depp might face Monday.

Ellen Barkin says fellow actor Johnny Depp was a jealous and angry man even back in the 1990s, when the two dated. Barkin’s remarks from a previously taped deposition were played in court Thursday by lawyers for Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard. The attorneys are trying to undermine Depp’s libel lawsuit against Heard. Depp says a Washington Post op-ed that Heard...

A friend of actor Amber Heard testified Wednesday that she saw the bruises and cuts left in the aftermath of multiple incidents of abuse inflicted by Heard’s ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

Actor Johnny Depp filed a libel lawsuit in Fairfax County, Virginia, against his ex-wife Amber Heard over a 2018 op-ed piece she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”

Jury selection began Monday in a long-anticipated libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser.

A Manhattan judge said Wednesday that lawyers for Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are seeking a new trial on her defamation claims against The New York Times, along with his removal from the case.

A lawyer for a woman who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him said Tuesday she will not seek to depose Trump prior to trial because it would cause unnecessary delay, but added that a DNA sample was still being sought.

The National Archives said 15 boxes of White House records were found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. There is a current investigation led by the Justice Department regarding the matter.

A judge has delayed trial for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation claims against The New York Times after she tested positive for the coronavirus three times

The widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin.

Dominion says it suffered from the conspiracy theories pushed by Sidney Powell and others, including Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

A woman whose dog died during a grooming at a PetSmart store in New Jersey is now apologizing for blaming the store for the death. Danielle DiNapoli dropped off her 8-year-old bulldog, Scruffles for grooming at the Flemington store on Dec. 29, 2017. Within an hour, the store called her to say the dog had died. DiNapoli publicly blamed the…