Court will not allow TikTok creator to identify anonymous Redditor

June 29, 2026 - Plaintiff, a TikTok creator with roughly one million followers, makes his living livestreaming on the platform. After an anonymous Reddit user posted a 27-second clip . . .

Alex Jones gets partial win in Connecticut lawsuit over unfair trade practices 

December 10, 2024 - Erica Lafferty, William Sherlach, and other family members of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting sued Alex Jones, Free Speech Systems, LLC, and . . .

Section 230 protected President Trump from defamation liability

April 11, 2024 - Plaintiff sued the Trump campaign, some of the President’s advisors and several conservative media outlets asserting claims for defamation. Plaintiff – an employee of voting . . .

RFK Jr.’s online defamation case against Daily Kos writer tossed on jurisdictional grounds

January 23, 2024 - Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. sued Daily Kos writer David Vickery over a blog post Daily Kos published on August 29, 2020. The post described . . .

Second Circuit rules in favor of Barstool Sports in high profile online defamation case

January 9, 2024 - The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Barstool Sports and certain of its employees in the longstanding defamation case brought by . . .

Can a person be liable for retweeting a defamatory tweet?

May 12, 2022 - Under traditional principles of defamation law, one can be liable for repeating a defamatory statement to others. Does the same principle apply, however, on social . . .

HuffPost protected by Section 230 in Carter Page defamation suit

February 14, 2021 - Carter Page sued the publisher of the HuffPost over some 2016 articles about the Russia collusion matter that Page claimed were defamatory. These articles were . . .

Section 230 immunity protected Twitter from claims it aided and abetted defamation

September 22, 2020 - Twitter enjoyed Section 230 immunity for aiding and abetting defamation because plaintiffs' claims on that point did not transform Twitter into a party that created . . .

Restraining order entered against website that encouraged contacting children of plaintiff’s employees

December 13, 2018 -

California Supreme Court rejects Yelp takedown injunction

July 3, 2018 - The Supreme Court of California ruled that Yelp could not be ordered to remove defamatory reviews from its website because federal law immunized it from . . .