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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-802 Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan Whether the Court should reconsider the 'actual-malice' standard in defamation cases involving public figures
18-584 Angela Engle Horne v. WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6 Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-standard defamation first-amendment free-speech media-law public-figure public-official sullivan Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan
18-5228 Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-13 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court violates precedents and the Eighth Amendment