(AP) A federal appeals court on June 23 upheld a ruling dismissing a defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax after CBS News broadcast interviews with two women who accused him of sexual assault. In its ruling, a ...

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Where defendant was sued for defamation and has asserted counterclaims, some claims survive plaintiff’s demurrers while others are barred by the statute of limitations. Background In the underlying suit, filed on March 1, 2019, plaintiff John C. Depp sued defendant ...

Tagged with: Defamation Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White Virginia Circuit Courts

A Fairfax County circuit judge has removed some of the defamation claims against actor Johnny Depp filed by ex-wife Amber Heard, but her principal accusations and a demand for attorneys’ fees remain alive as the litigation moves toward a lengthy ...

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In a court battle in which one dentist is suing another for defamation and for firing him, a circuit judge has ordered the defendant dentist to pay $140,554.65 in attorneys’ fees and costs for deleting digital records requested in discovery. ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Michael F. Devine Spoliation Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff, a solicitor in the United Kingdom and a California resident, has not demonstrated how this court can assert personal jurisdiction over his defamation claim against the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, arising from matters occurring in the UK involving ...

Tagged with: Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon Virginia Circuit Courts

A former top executive with The Martin Agency in Richmond who claims he was unfairly maligned by an article in Adweek may have to sue in a court outside of Virginia. A judge says the advertising trade magazine lacks sufficient ...

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Twitter is immune from plaintiff’s defamation suit under 47 U.S.C. § 230. Twitter’s motion to dismiss is granted. As an initial matter, the court rejects plaintiff’s argument that this is the second motion to dismiss before the court and thus ...

Tagged with: Defamation Henrico County Circuit Court Judge John Marshall Virginia Circuit Courts

A newly elected commonwealth’s attorney who allegedly maligned a former staffer at a public gathering does not have prosecutorial immunity to the staffer’s defamation claim, the Supreme Court of Virginia decided this month. The justices’ ruling revives a lawsuit against ...

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Relying on what he termed a “relaxed” Virginia standard for pleading defamation by implication, a Fairfax County judge has allowed actor Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit against his ex-wife to go forward. Circuit Judge Bruce D. White said three statements in ...

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The fight over the future of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments led to the violent “Unite the Right” rally two years ago. Now, the same dispute has given rise to a First Amendment battle over a magazine article about supporters of the ...

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