Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a year-long counselling program but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star’s career. The 34-year-old star of Creed III and other films had faced up to a year behind bars after he was convicted of misdemeanor assault by … Read more
Former Narcotics Bureau officer Sameer Wakhende has moved the court to file a defamation case against actress-dancer Rakhi Sawant and the advocate Ali Kaashif Khan, who represented Munmun Dhamecha in a drug case, in which superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan’s name too was involved. The defamation suit filed is for reportedly Rs. 11.01 … Read more
A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sexual predator. “It was terrible. The whole thing was like pure nightmare and hell,” Frederik Durand said in an interview from Montreal. “I … Read more
Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled “Our Changing Planet” to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday. This week: From … Read more
PETALING JAYA: The hearing of the defamation suits filed by several DAP leaders against Kepala Batas MP Dr Siti Mastura Muhammad (pic) has been fixed for six days in September. George Town High Court judge Justice Datuk Quay Chew Soon fixed Sept 2, 3, 7, 18, 19 and 20 when the case came up for … Read more
A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester. Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published … Read more
Longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll on Monday reflected on her changed perception of former President Trump, revealing she now believes the former president is “nothing” whom people “don’t need to be afraid of.” Carroll, speaking with MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Monday, said she was “terrified” to face the former president during the defamation … Read more
Rudy Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday as he seeks to appeal a jury’s stunning $148 million judgment to two Georgia election workers whom he defamed after the 2020 presidential election. The filing came a day after the federal judge who oversaw the case handed down an order that would immediately force Giuliani to … Read more
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is proposing to pay pennies on the dollar—just 4%—of the $1.4 billion owed to the Sandy Hook families who successfully sued him for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress after he repeatedly claimed the 2012 Newtown school massacre was a hoax using “crisis actors” to boost gun control legislation. The … Read more
Congress leader Ashok Gehlot. (File photo/News18) Shekhawat in his complaint has alleged that Gehlot by way of press conferences, media reports, and social media posts publicly defamed him by linking him to the Sanjivani scam in the state A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot against … Read more
