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 ...

Tagged with: Defamation Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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 ...

Tagged with: Defamation Justice William C. Mims Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia

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 ...

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

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 ...

Tagged with: Defamation First Amendment Free Speech

Actor Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, his ex-wife, can be tried in Fairfax County, even though neither of the parties has any personal connection to the locale, a Virginia circuit judge ruled. The star of the “Pirates of ...

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

Two publications purporting to reveal widespread voter fraud have given rise to a viable lawsuit. The published materials (called Alien Invasion I and II) allegedly reported falsely that specific individuals, identified by name and other personal information, had registered and/or voted illegally in ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Constitutional Defamation Elections Judge Liam O'Grady Personal Injury Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A woman and her mother sufficiently alleged defamation by a Golden Corral server, who publicly accused them of hiding food in their purses. But the court dismissed their claim for contract interference on account of their race and also struck ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Civil Rights Defamation Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Based on her responsibilities as set forth in the Virginia Code, a school board’s Director of Budget & Finance was a “public official” who had to show actual malice to prove that a TV news station defamed her. She failed ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Constitutional Defamation Employment First Amendment Judge Henry F. Floyd Personal Injury Tort