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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A543 Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. New York 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete 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?