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Defamation
Newtown, CT
News
Alex Jones' InfoWars Up For Auction To Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families: Report
The tools Alex Jones used to build his conspiracy theory and supplement-hawking empire could soon be yours, NPR reported. A court-appointed trustee will soon begin to auction off pieces of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, to pay back the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting victims, the report continued. Jones owes them $1.5 billion in a defamation judgment after he claimed the massacre, which killed 26 people — 20 of them children – was a hoax. The trustee will sell everything from chairs and production equipment to the InfoWars brand name, th…
Newburgh, NY
News
Trump Defamation Case: Westchester Juror Among Those Awarding E. Jean Carroll $83.3M In Damages
For the second time in less than a year, a Manhattan federal jury has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll, a longtime Hudson Valley resident, millions of dollars in damages for repeatedly defaming her. The seven men and two women – including Hudson Valley residents from Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties – awarded Carroll a combined $83.3 million after deliberating for three hours on Friday, Jan. 26. The other jurors were from New York County (Manhattan) and the Bronx. Specifically, jurors decided that Trump should pay Carroll $11 million to fund a…
Newburgh, NY
News
Liable Again: Trump Defamed E. Jean Carroll Second Time By Denying Sexual Abuse, Judge Rules
Months after a jury concluded that former President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago and then defamed her by calling her a liar, a federal judge in New York has found Trump liable in Carroll’s second defamation lawsuit. In his ruling issued Wednesday, Sept. 6, in US District Court in Manhattan, Judge Lewis Kaplan said Carroll has already proven that Trump defamed her, and the upcoming trial will only decide how much the former president must pay her in damages. Wednesday’s ruling comes after a federal jury in the first lawsuit awarded Carroll, now age 79 and l…
Newark, NJ
Business
'Shark Tank's' Daymond John Granted Restraining Order Against Disgruntled NJ Contestants
Daymond John is hoping his battle with some unhappy former business partners is over. The "Shark Tank" star was granted a permanent restraining order against a family with Newark roots who unleashed a torrent of criticism against him after they partnered on "Shark Tank" to sell Bubba’s Q Boneless Baby Back Ribs. Bubba is Al "Bubba" Baker, a Newark native who was a three-time Pro Bowler in the NFL. The permanent restraining order was issued on Friday, July 21, in New Jersey Federal Court by Judge Robert Kugler. The Baker family is prohibited from making any public comments …
Massapequa, NY
News
E. Jean Carroll Wants New Damages From Trump After His Comments At CNN Town Hall, Report Says
Former President Donald Trump’s words at a televised town hall may come back to bite him if writer E. Jean Carroll gets her way. On Monday, May 22, Carroll asked a Manhattan federal court to award her a “very substantial” additional amount of damages in her civil sexual abuse and defamation case against Trump, CNN reports. According to the outlet, the move is in direct response to Trump’s appearance at a CNN town hall on May 10, in which he continued to deny Carroll’s claims that he sexually abused her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s, calling the allegation “fake”…
Newburgh, NY
News
Donald Trump Sexually Abused, Defamed E. Jean Carroll, Jury Finds; Awards $5M In Damages
Former President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s and then defamed her when he claimed she was lying about the allegation, a New York jury found in a unanimous verdict. The Manhattan federal jury read its verdict shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 after deliberating for approximately 2.5 hours. Jurors found Trump liable for battery based on Carroll’s sexual assault claim, as well as defamation. The jury did not, however, find Trump liable for the alleged rape. Carroll was awarded total damages of nearly $5 million, which includes $2.7…
Monroe, NY
Politics
Trump's 'Past Words, Actions' Cited In Judge's Ruling For Anonymous Jurors In Sex Assault Trial
Jurors set to hear arguments in former President Donald Trump’s upcoming civil sexual assault trial brought by New York columnist E. Jean Carroll will remain anonymous, a federal judge ruled. In his ruling issued Thursday, March 23, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan cited Trump’s “past words and actions,” in part for his decision, saying the former president has “repeatedly attacked courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters.” Earlier Report: Trump Rape Accuser From Hudson Valley To File Lawsuit Under New NY '…
Elizabeth, NJ
News
NJ Teacher Used Olympian As Role Model For Students Before She Ruined Her Life, Lawsuit Says
The person who Tamar Herman says is responsible for ruining her life was someone she knew, she says. Someone who she exercised with, had exchanged phone numbers with and become Facebook friends with. So, why Ibtihaj Muhammad failed to reach out to Herman before publishing the social media post that upended her 30-year teaching career and forced her out of the community she's been apart of for decades, is beyond her, according to Herman's attorney, Erik Dykema, with The Lawfare Project. According to a lawsuit filed against Muhammad, an Olympic fencer and non-profit Muslim group Ca…
Alexandria, VA
News
Johnny Depp Finds Love With Former Lawyer: Report
Things are apparently heating up between Johnny Depp and his former lawyer. The 59-year-old actor is reported to be dating London-based attorney Joelle Rich, 37, who represented him in a libel case years ago against British newspaper The Sun, US Weekly reports. Rich showed support for her former client when she sat through his defamation trials against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, that took place in earlier this year in Fairfax, the website said. Depp and Rich apparently met up secretly at hotels in the beginning of their relationship, Page Six says citing an anonymous source. On…
Newtown, CT
News
Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M
Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered by a Texas jury to pay nearly $50 million to the family of a young boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In a unanimous decision Friday, Aug. 5, the jury said Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the parents of 6-year-old victim Jesse Lewis. That’s in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded the family the day prior. Jones had already been found liable in a default judgment for defamation and “intentional inflicti…
Fairfax, VA
News
Amber Heard Found Guilty On All Defamation Charges Against Johnny Depp
A Fairfax County jury found Amber Heard guilty on all defamation charges against her ex-husband Johnny Depp on Wednesday, June 1. The seven-person jury said Heard "acted with malice" when she made several defamatory statements about Depp in a Washington Post article in 2018 in which Heard described being a victim of domestic violence. Depp had previously sued Heard for $50 million over the allegations and Heard countersued for $100 million. Depp was successfully able to prove that he did not abuse Heard despite her allegations. "From the very beginning, I have the goal of bringing this…
Fairfax, VA
News
How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case
Once known as a place to share dancing skills, TikTok is helping to solve national cases and court trials — including actor Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife and actress, Amber Heard. Evidence brought forth during last week's trial — taking place in Fairfax County, VA — by Heard’s legal team was debunked on the video-sharing app. Users were among the first to point out that a Milani Cosmetics makeup pallet used as evidence by Heard's legal team was not released until after the alleged abuse against her occurred. Milani later released a statement confirming that. One video…
Massapequa, NY
News
Judge Tosses Sarah Palin's Lawsuit Against The New York Times
Former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin had her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times thrown out by the judge overseeing the case, according to multiple reports. On Monday, Feb. 14, Manhattan federal court judge Jed Rakoff said that he will dismiss Palin’s suit, determining that her team of lawyers did not sufficiently prove a key element of the case. Rakoff’s ruling came while jury deliberation was still in progress. The judge said he will allow the jury to reach a verdict, and he will dismiss the case once they have done so. According to Rakoff, Palin’s team failed to prove …
Newtown, CT
News
Alex Jones Found Guilty By Default In Sandy Hook Defamation Case
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the host of Infowars who claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “giant hoax,” was found guilty by default in four defamation cases brought against him by family members of the victims. On Monday, Nov. 15, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled against Jones by default for failing to comply with the discovery process. According to Bellis, Jones and the entities he controls used “willful noncompliance” with the discovery process as the basis of the ruling against him. “All the defendants have failed to fully and fairly comply with the…
Massapequa, NY
News
Cardi B, Two Others Facing Lawsuit From Long Island Beachgoers
Some beachgoers on Long Island are suing rapper Cardi B, her sister Hennessy Carolina, and Carolina’s girlfriend, Michelle Diaz over an alleged confrontation that happened over Labor Day weekend. The lawsuit alleges that Carolina assaulted, battered, threatened and defamed three people at Smith Point Beach on Fire Island last month. The rapper and Diaz were also named int he lawsuit for defamation and civil rights violations, according to multiple reports. It is alleged that Suffolk County residents were at the beach with their families over the holiday when Carolina reported approached the…
Bergenfield, NJ
News
Lawsuit: Bergen County Jewish Day School Wrongly Accused Boy Of Sex Assault
A Jewish day school in Bergen County is facing a lawsuit for wrongfully accusing a boy of sexually assaulting a student and banning him from graduation, NorthJersey.com reports. Solomon Schechter Day School in New Milford pressured the 14-year-old boy to make a confession without his parents present after he was accused of touching a student inappropriately on a bus during a class trip to Israel in May 2019, the report says. The boy, identified in the suit as Carl, expressed thoughts of self-harm over trip chaperone's presumption of guilt, NorthJersey.com said. His father subsequently broke…
Cortlandt, NY
Politics
Hudson Valley Writer Who Accused Trump Of Sexual Assault Sues Him For Defamation
The New York journalist who wrote a book accusing President Donald Trump of raping her is filing a defamation lawsuit against him after he denied the claims and stated he never met her. E. Jean Carroll, who lives in a cabin on an island in the Wawayanda Mountains outside Warwick in Orange County, the author of Elle magazine’s “Ask E. Jean” advice column, filed a suit in Manhattan Supreme Court this week because the president claimed he never met her after her book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal” was released. In the book, Carroll alleges that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Good…
Newtown, CT
News
Alex Jones Accused Of Sending Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Emails Containing Child Porn
A Superior Court judge said she would make a decision on whether to sanction InfoWars host Alex Jones for claiming that attorneys tried to frame him following the discovery of child pornography in electronic files sent to the lawyers representing the families and victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. In a court filing on Monday, June 17, lawyers for the families said that pornography was found in email metadata files Jones' attorney's filed as part of the discovery process in a defamation lawsuit. The court filings also claimed that Jones accused one of the famil…
Paramus, NJ
News
Neo-Nazi Website To Pay Paramus Comic $4.1M After Ariana Grande Bombing, ISIS Smear
A Neo-Nazi website is being forced to pay a Paramus comedian $4.1 million after falsely claiming he was behind the 2017 terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert. Dean Obeidallah, a political comedian and host of his own SiriusXM Progress show, filed a the defamation suit against The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin, after the website smeared him as a terrorist behind the 2017 concert bombing in England -- inciting death threats, he said on Twitter. Obeidallah, a Daily Beast writer, vowed to donate any money he collects to hate-fighting organizations. "The goal of this lawsuit is to…
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
News
Woman Apparently Groped By Sussex Sheriff Says Photos Were Fabricated: Report
Photos of Sussex County Sheriff Michael Strada with his hand on a woman's behind that circulated on social media were apparently "completely fabricated," the woman in the photo told local media. The woman -- who privately disclosed her identity to NJ.com -- said she was never inappropriately touched by the sheriff and even defended his character. "Sheriff Strada is an honest, decent public official and this controversy over what seems to be an enhanced, six-second video has been completely fabricated by a man who is shamelessly hiding behind a phony name, a phony Facebook page and the …
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
News
Lawsuit
: Closter Debate Team Coach Wrongly Attacked Student, 14, After Losing Contest
A 14-year-old from Fort Lee left his prestigious private school in Closter after coaches on the debate team accused him of selling out a recent contest, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court. The former Kugnus ACTS Academy student faced "false, malicious and defamatory" from debate coach after losing in the second round of a contest last month in the Lakeland Westchester Classic in New York, NorthJersey.com reports. The teen was accused of sharing strategies and files with a friend on the opposing Manhattan team, who “possessed the exact same overviews, block an…
Chappaqua, NY
News
Kennedys Win Hospital Defamation Lawsuit; Settled For Nearly $200K
A highly publicized nearly six-year-old defamation lawsuit was settled this week in favor of Douglas and Molly Kennedy of Chappaqua. The Kennedys countersued Northern Westchester Hospital, two of its nurses and the husband of one of the nurses. The couple's lawsuit followed Kennedy's acquittal of child endangerment and harassment charges stemming from a Jan. 7, 2012 altercation at the hospital in Mount Kisco. The hospital did not comment. The Kennedys also declined to comment. Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is a reporter for Fox News. The nurses said they were attemptin…
