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Forum: The Case for a Federal Defamation Regime
The Yale Law Journal - Forum: The Case for a Federal Defamation Regime The Case for a Federal Defamation Regime abstract. This Essay argues that
Forum: Lawrence Meets Libel: Squaring Constitutional Norms with Sexual-Orientation Defamation
Orientation Defamation A. Defamation’s Common Law Origins and Structure First, it is necessary to understand how sexual-orientation defamation fits
Forum: How Two Rights Made a Wrong: Sullivan, Anti-SLAPP, and the Underenforcement of Public-Figure Defamation Torts
The Yale Law Journal - Forum: How Two Rights Made a Wrong: Sullivan, Anti-SLAPP, and the Underenforcement of Public-Figure Defamation Torts How Two
Forum: Defusing a Google Bomb
counternotices or other legal action. When confronting the evil of anonymous internet defamation, the first step is to realize that the sites hosting such content
I Yale Law Journal /I Public-Interest Fellowship Essays
Congress can and should replace the existing state-law defamation regime with a federal defamation law. Forum This Essay argues that Congress can and
Forum: Snyder v. Phelps, the Supreme Court’s Speech-Tort Jurisprudence, and Normative Considerations
speech infringes on another’s personal interests protected by tort law. In Sullivan, the Court reconciled defamation liability with the First
Alexandra M. Gutierrez
law defamation regime with a federal defamation law. Doctrinally, a federal regime would better fit the modern, boundaryless digital-communications paradigm. Practically, it would ...
2020 Yale Law Journal Student-Essay Competition
Christian Talley’s How Two Rights Made a Wrong: Sullivan, Anti-SLAPP, and the Underenforcement of Public-Figure Defamation Torts and Meenakshi Krishnan’s
The Plaintiff Police
emotional harms from “being forced” to inflict violence on others, and defamation and privacy harms said to flow from complaints of police misconduct. These
Justin W. Aimonetti
SLAPP statutes give public-figure defamation plaintiffs a near-impossible task. Such plaintiffs must introduce facts—before discovery—about the defendant’s mental state ...