Curtis Pub. Co. v. Butts (1967) … held that the head football coach at the University of Georgia (who was privately paid and not a public employee) was a "public figure" in a defamation case ...

The Petah Tikva Magistrate Court extended until next Thursday the detention of a man said to be a senior figure in the ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - How do you defame a public figure? Not easily. The First Lady of France, Valerie Truweiler, just withdrew a lawsuit she'd filed against writers who had said that she was the ...

Public figures "have voluntarily exposed themselves to increased risk of injury from defamatory falsehood" and boast increased access to media to "counteract false statements." ...

Public-figure plaintiffs generally have to prove more to win their case than do private-figure plaintiffs.With the discussion continuing to heat up this morning, ...

How a public figure should behave April 21, 2015 More than 10 years ago The April 18 Style article " ESPN a leader in sports, staff suspensions " shed light on ESPN reporter Britt McHenry's ...

“I’ve been sober from alcohol for 1,558 days, so to press me on a DUI, I’m a public figure,” he said. The description for one of his last YouTube videos, ...

Facebook’s "bullying and harassment policy differentiates between public figures and private individuals to enable freedom of expression and legitimate public discourse around those in the ...

Heidi Cruz speaking at a campaign event in Oshkosh, WI, last Saturday. When Donald Trump tweeted that he might “spill the beans” about Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, after a Cruz-supporting PAC ...