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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 ...