Someone convicted of “criminal libel” under the bill would also be responsible to provide restitution to the victim for specific costs incurred or loss as result of the false statement.

Dist. It seems pretty clearly wrong to me, but part of a broader trend in which states are reviving criminal libel through criminal harassment or cyberstalking laws (and without even a requirement ...

House Speaker Mike Moyle on Friday introduced a bill to make it a felony crime to knowingly communicate a false statement about another person.

Kelly controversy, she may well have had the broader libel law protections offered to ... falsely implied that she knowingly took part in a criminal enterprise. But she pleads nothing to suggest ...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the report was nothing more than a conspiracy theory attempting to demonize the Jewish state.

An Idaho lawmaker is pushing a bill that, if passed, would make it a felony to knowingly lie and communicate a false ...