From the Winter 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 36. Recent events in the area of criminal libel have spurred public debate over whether or not statutes that punish speech should exist at ...

From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. Perhaps the most threatening problem with criminal defamation ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...