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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

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compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. The site was sued by Sarah Jones, an ex-Bengals cheerleader and a former high school teacher in northern Kentucky, who was libeled on the site by commentators. The jury hung in the first trial of this case, which necessitated a second trial.

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The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’

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The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.