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Texas Court of Appeals Rules Paper Entitled To Summary Judgment in Defamation Case
The Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District, has held that the Houston Chinese Press was entitled to summary judgment in a defamation case brought by David Tang, a limited purpose public figure...

Georgia Appellate Court: Summary Judgment Appropriate in Defamation Lawsuit Against Savannah Paper
The Georgia Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision granting summary judgment in favor of the Savannah Morning News (Morris Publishing Group), which had been sued for defamation by William Torrance...

COA Warns Trial Judges: Don't Make Factual Findings For Summary Judgment
Today in Craddock v. Craddock the Court of Appeals (COA) reversed a summary judgment order which contained 32 findings of fact, some of which addressed issues on which evidence was conflicting...

Standards of Review: Summary Judgment - Opportunity to complete discovery
From Gant v. State Farm, NPO, COA 4/22/2011 This case addresses within the PIP context the proof needed to obtain lost wages by a self-employed claimant. Although one of the issues on appeal related to the burden and quality of the evidence presented which the court considered self-serving spreadsheet (the PIP carrier had requested tax returns which were never provided over a two-year period), the remaining issue on appeal dealt with the opportunity to present the evidence: The standard for summary judgment is as follows: ?if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, stipulations, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law...

Defamation per se in Virginia arising from summary of a judicial opinion
In Vaile v. Willick, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53619 (W.D. Va. July 14, 2008), a law student's defamation action against two lawyers survived the defendants' motion for summary judgment...

District Judge Grants Summary Judgment In "Gangland" Defamation Case
A district court judge granted summary judgment for defendants in a defamation plaintiff's action against A&E Television Network in a case in which the plaintiff alleged that the network's show "Gangland" defamed him and put his life in danger...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

New York Building Codes
Building and constructions laws in New York

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

New York Employment Law
alleged violations of New York employment law.

Tanning Salon Defamation
WDIO-TV pays undisclosed settlement after reporting false information about a business owner.

False Abuse Accusations
Boothbay Harbor Central School District pays shop teacher $320,000 defamation settlement.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Ojani Noa
$545,000 settlement JLo defamation lawsuit.