A federal court in Georgia ruled that a blogger who runs a site about the global pecan market must pay the owner of a business that sells nuts $60,000 in damages for making libelous statements about the owner, including that he co-founded a business that was accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of pecans from growers.
Read moreThe Eleventh Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of Florida Atlantic University in a dispute brought by a professor who was fired after he refused to submit reports about his personal blog, where he questioned whether the Sandy Hook massacre had occurred.
Read moreThe editor of the blog “Town of Oyster Bay News” sued Oyster Bay, New York, over the passage of a resolution giving the town leader the authority to have anyone who makes “offensive, insulting, threatening, insolent, slanderous or obscene remarks or gestures” during town meetings charged with disorderly conduct.
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An attempt by one of the country’s largest winemakers to squash a prominent industry critic who cast the winery as “fakers not makers” has soured in federal court.
Read moreRussia’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that gives the government the right to register bloggers, journalists and social media users as foreign agents.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in a case brought by liberal political commentators and conservative activists challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s law against online harassment, claiming it criminalizes protected speech.
Read moreMariia Butina, whom prosecutors have accused of acting as an illegal foreign agent for Russia, said in 2014 she was twice denied visas to enter the United States before finally being allowed to attend a National Rifle Association conference that year.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered Marquette University on Friday to reinstate a political-science professor who rankled his colleagues with a blog post criticizing liberal speech policing.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that two professors can pursue claims that Chicago State University officials launched a campaign to punish them for criticizing the school’s administration on a blog created by faculty members.
Read moreLiberal political commentators teamed up with conservative activists in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s new law against online harassment.
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Social media and blogging community LiveJournal must go to trial over allegations that it broke the law by posting copyrighted celebrity photos online, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
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