Schwimmer wins judgment in defamation suit
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David Schwimmer won a &#36;400,000 judgment in a defamation lawsuit against former charity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, the actor&#039;s publicist said Friday.
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The case was one of the first in which a judge in the United States had ruled that a restraining order had been violated by contact made through MySpace.
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James Soong, chairman of Taiwan's minor opposition People First Party, won a libel suit over President Chen Shui-bian's claims that he had met secretly with a Chinese official.
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Keep our web sites free! Silicon Justice Is this the dawning of the age of the defamation take-down notice?â¦
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Heirs of a Jewish family that lost its German department store fortune under the Nazis have won a court verdict that advances their $193 million claim to property on a famous Berlin square, a lawyer said ...
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A federal appeals court Thursday upheld most of a &#36;27 million restitution order against former Cisco Systems executive Robert Gordon, now serving a federal prison term for defrauding the San Jose networking giant in an elaborate embezzlement scheme.
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A state appeals court in Manhattan dismissed former basketball star Latrell Sprewell's libel suit against the New York Post over the newspaper's account of how he broke his finger nearly five years ago.
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Movie director Spike Lee has won his cybersquatting case against a Philippines-based operator who misused the domain name to redirect surfers to a pornographic Web Site, arbitrators ruled Friday.
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Former Labour MP George Galloway has won his libel action against the Telegraph and won Â£150,000 in damages. He is also expected to get his costs - the court case is estimated to have cost around Â£1m.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Nietzsche-quoting judge said a promise penned in blood by a businessman was not an enforceable contract. Superior Court Judge Corey S.
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Editor and Publisher - CHICAGO In a Canadian version of the U.S. Supreme Court's Tasini decision on copyrights, a divided Ontario Appeals Court Thursday declared that The Globe and Mail violated a freelance writer's copyright when it republished her articles online and in electronic databases.
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SANTA MONICA, California  - Relatives of murder victim Ron Goldman won a court order on Tuesday seizing any money O.J. Simpson earns for lending his name and likeness to a football video game with a fictional team called the Assassins and a knife-wielding mascot.
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A California judge has approved the settlement of a lawsuit that sought to stop RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. from placing cigarette ads in magazines with large teen readerships, a state
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C'est un Ã©diteur! The Buttock has successfully sued MySpace for copyright infringement. Late last month, a French High Court ruled that the popular U.S.-based social networking site acts as a publisher as well as a hosting service, making it liable for unauthorized broadcasts of films from the French comedian known as "Lafesse." Yes, that's how it translates.â¦
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JAKARTA: An Indonesian court was scheduled to deliver its verdict on a libel suit against three journalists of a weekly magazine that rights groups say highlights dangers to the country&#39;s free press.
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Washington State's highest court has given the green light for a class-action lawsuit.
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George Galloway was awarded substantial libel damages from the Daily Telegraph after the broadsheet accused the MP of receiving secret payments from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.