Singh expects the draft bill to include two measures that will redress the balance of a libel law that famously places undue burden on the defendant: he hopes it will prevent companies from having ...the same rights to reputation as individuals, and introduce a robust public-interest defence - something that the United States already has.
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ANTI-LIBEL INJUNCTIONS Volokh, Eugene
University of Pennsylvania law review,
01/2020, Volume:
168, Issue:
1
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Peer reviewed
An injunction against libel, backed by the threat of prosecution for criminal contempt, is like a miniature criminal libel law--just for this defendant, and just for statements about this plaintiff. ...That is its virtue. That is its danger. And that is the key to identifying how the First Amendment and equitable principles should constrain such injunctions. From the 1960s to the 1990s, libel was conventionally understood to be controlled (to the extent that it can be controlled) by the threat of civil damages. Criminal libel was seen as an anachronism. Injunctions against libel were seen as unavailable. Many still assume this is so. Here, Volokh discusses a scenario that such criminal punishment can be threatened.
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Although tar smearing was a means of revealing acts of adultery and prostitution to the Ottoman society and officials, the opinion of neighborhood residents also gained importance in determining the ...legitimacy of these allegations. However, beyond its use as a tool of declaring acts of adultery, this was gradually exploited by malicious neighbors to slander each other. Through an exhaustive analysis of Konya court records between 1645 and 1750, this study attempts to examine the extent to which people used tar smearing as a duty under ‘social responsibility’ to stop social evils like adultery, and to what extent was it exploited as a means of a slanderous tool.
This study aims to answer the question of how Saudi's Al-Yaum online newspaper covers the crime news, from Jan - Dec 2018. The descriptive method is used, and data is collected through a structured ...content analysis sheet. 24 versions represent a systematic random sample was analyzed. The results were: Saudi newspapers cover mere internal crime news, the most types of the crime news were cover was the murder, assault, sale of illegal beverages and drugs, and the least published was news dealing with topics of felonious assault, interfering with an officer, contempt of court, and criminal libel.
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The article covers the territorial dimension of the north Mozambican insurgency. Based on the analysis of the local context and security, economic and identity dimension, it measures the level of ...territorial control of Ansar al-Sunna. The analysis argues that despite a success of the group to dominate over some population centres, the actual level of territorial presence is rather low. As such, Ansar al-Sunna does not present a viable alternative for the local population and thus creates an opportunity for the state administration to uproot its presence and recapture the region of Cabo Delgado in case it is able to provide meaningful services to its inhabitants.
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La maxime de la médisance Carraud, Vincent
Dix-septième siècle,
01/2022, Volume:
294, Issue:
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Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Cette note s’efforce, dans un premier temps, de caractériser l’originalité de l’analyse que Pascal fait de la calomnie dans la XVIe Provinciale, en révélant la contradiction qu’elle recèle entre son ...principe et son effet : « tant le mal est contraire à soi-même, et tant il s’embarrasse et se détruit par sa propre malice ». Car, en exemptant la calomnie d’être un péché, l’« étrange maxime de la médisance » ruine le crédit que le médisant suppose avoir auprès de celui qui en est l’auditeur. Dans un second temps, qui en est la conséquence directe, nous rétablissons le texte d’une citation de Manilius relevée par Pascal dans un brouillon de la XVIe Provinciale, Laf. 960. Il faut lire non pas, comme dans toutes les éditions des Pensées, « Fecitque cadendo undique me cadere, En tombant de tous côtés, il m’a fait tomber », mais, conformément à l’Astronomicon : « Fecitque cadendo undique ne caderet ». Entendons : en tombant de tous côtés dans le péché, c’est-à-dire en calomniant sans retenue, le calomniateur a fait que son auditeur, ne le croyant pas, n’y tombe pas.
At the turn of the twentieth century, American journalists transmitted news across the country by telegraph. But what happened when these stories weren't true? In Bad News Travels Fast, Patrick C. ...File examines a series of libel cases by a handful of plaintiffs—including socialites, businessmen, and Annie Oakley—who sued newspapers across the country for republishing false newswire reports. Through these cases, File demonstrates how law and technology intertwined to influence debates about reputation, privacy, and the acceptable limits of journalism.This largely forgotten era in the development of American libel law provides crucial historical context for contemporary debates about the news media, public discourse, and the role of a free press. File argues that the legal thinking surrounding these cases laid the groundwork for the more friendly libel standards the press now enjoys and helped to establish today's regulations of press freedom amid the promise and peril of high-speed communication technology.
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