| 23A543 |
Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. |
New York |
2023-12-13 |
Presumed Complete |
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defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the First Amendment requires a different standard for evaluating libel claims involving private figures in media reporting about matters of al… |
| 23-5911 |
Jeffrey Rivard v. Brattleboro Reformer, et al. |
Vermont |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
false-light first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech journalists-privilege libel negligence |
Whether the Vermont Superior Court's ruling granting a Motion to Strike in Jeffrey Rivard v Susan Smallheer, Brattleboro Reformer is inconsistent with… |
| 22-82 |
Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection
22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det |
Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar… |
| 21-7955 |
Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty |
Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner? |
| 21-343 |
Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance |
Whether the standard of proof in a State Defamation/Libel case arising from a parental complaint to a National Governing Body of Sport, should automat… |
| 20-7537 |
Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements |
Is New Jersey's 'cyber-harassment' statute constitutionally invalid? |
| 20-1073 |
John Does 1-10 v. Debra Haaland, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights congressional-immunity constitutional-law due-process federal-immunity free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-privilege libel speech-and-debate-clause |
Is election to Congress a license to libel anyone, anywhere, anytime, even when the libel is not in response to a press inquiry, does not concern pend… |
| 20-1063 |
Shkelzën Berisha v. Guy Lawson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
actual-malice constitutional-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment libel libel-law mckee-v-cosby public-figure |
Whether the Court should overrule the 'actual malice' requirement for public figure defamation plaintiffs |
| 20-606 |
Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations |
California |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel |
Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an anti… |
| 19-1383 |
Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment |
Does the First Amendment alter the weight to be accorded a libel plaintiff's evidence, rendering the plaintiff unable, by his or her sworn statement o… |
| 19-6442 |
William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest |
Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker, who fails to meet the requirements for a limited purpose public figure under Ge… |
| 19-5726 |
Wingrove Robinson v. Raintree Tower Apartments, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process libel standing |
Question not identified |
| 19-5533 |
Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district free-speech judicial-conduct legal-issue libel libel-law maine maine-jurisdiction standing |
Has judicial conduct in the federal district of Maine reached a cellarage to be gazed at only across the barriers of libel law? |