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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for defamation,
alleging that the news outlet intentionally manipulated a video
to give the appearance that the governor lied about a phone call with Donald Trump.
The governor’s demand for $787 million in punitive damages escalates his aggressive effort to challenge misinformation.

Newsom sues Fox News for defamation over story about call with Trump
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for defamation over story on call with President Trump.

Gavin Newsom files a $787M defamation suit against Fox News in Delaware, accusing the network of falsely claiming he lied about a June 6 phone call with Trump (Laurel Rosenhall/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/polit…

Newsom Sues Fox News for Saying He Lied About Phone Call With Trump
The lawsuit, which seeks at least $787 million in damages, comes as the California governor adopts an increasingly combative style with the president and his allies.

Ex-Texas, Alabama WR Isaiah Bond's defamation lawsuit against accuser dismissed

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ex-texa…

Trump's lawyers say the Supreme Court's sweeping presidential immunity ruling should save him $83.3 million (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tests-presidential-immunity-carroll-defamation-verdict-payout-2025-6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p79#a250624p79

Project Veritas has withdrawn its 2020 lawsuit against The New York Times; the lawsuit accused the newspaper of defamation over an article published in 2020 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/business/media/project-verita…

Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times
The conservative group accused The Times of defamation over an article published in 2020.

Hard to take seriously an organization that won't call out a nazi salute for what it is and won't speak out against genocide...
**Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties** | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

"The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, including calling him a traitor, were defamatory."
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindel…

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company
A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company. Jurors reached the verdict Monday for Lindell, one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists. He had called the employee for Dominion Voting Systems, Eric Coomer, a traitor. Lindell’s online media platform also streamed an event where a conservative podcaster accused Coomer of helping rig the 2020 election. During the trial in Denver, Lindel…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

Oh, cool! The #MyPillow guy was found guilty!
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f

https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f

👍 Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron sue Candace Owens for defamation
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/24/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-sue-candace-owens/

MyPillow Founder Mike Lindell Defamed Election Security Expert, Jury Finds (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/mypillow-mike-lindell-defamation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p5#a250617p5

Victim Sues MAGA Megachurch Pastor For Defamation - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/victim-sues-maga-megachurch-pastor-for-defamation/

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack
Jonathan Greenblatt accused commencement speakers of spreading antisemitic lies — and suggested they’re responsible for violent attacks.

A US federal judge dismisses Justin Baldoni's $400M defamation claim against Blake Lively, finding Lively's sexual harassment claims were legally protected (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jud

Judge Tosses Justin Baldoni's $400 Million Suit Against Blake Lively
A judge on Monday threw out the $400 million defamation suit filed by Justin Baldoni against Blake Lively.

As #Drumpf takes off for #Scotland to visit his #GolfCourses etc, #TheNational

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company (Colleen Slevin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p153#a250616p153

MyPillow CEO decries ‘Ministry of Truth’ as election fraud defamation trial heads to jury | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/mypillow-ceo-decries-ministry-of-truth-as-election-fraud-defamation-trial-heads-to-jury/

Trump’s appeal of EJ Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation verdict against him is set for oral argument June 24
Trump & DOJ have jointly moved to postpone
This case involves alleged defamations in 2019, when Trump was president.
At various times Trump has invoked, and lost,
both presidential immunity and "Westfall immunity".
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties (Labor Notes)
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p43#a250708p43

#MyPillow CEO's legal counsel Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster were excortiated by a Federal Judge and fined by court after violating court rules turning in #ArtificialIntelligence generated legal motions with nearly 30 defective citations, including bogus cites of non existent case law. …

MyPillow CEO’s lawyers fined for AI-generated court filing in Denver defamation case
The error-filled motion was filed in defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, which ended last month with a jury finding him liable for false claims about the 2020 election

A federal appeals court denies Trump's request for a rehearing in the E. Jean Carroll case, where he was found liable in 2023 for sexual abuse and defamation (Graham Kates/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court

Is Fake Grass Safe? A Manufacturer Sues to Stop a Discussion. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/climate/artificial-turf-grass-lawsuit-defamation-health-risk.html

Judge handed Trump major defamation win while begging for federal job - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ed-artau/

CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latime…

CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams wins a defamation case against the BBC over a documentary that claimed that Adams had sanctioned an MI5 informant's murder (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/

At various times Trump has invoked, and lost, both presidential immunity and Westfall immunity.
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:v

Mike Lindell heads into defamation trial planning to testify
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/i-have-nothing-to-hide-i-am-a-former-crack-addict-mike-lindell-plans-to-testify-at-his-billion-dollar-defamation-trial/

CNN's Post-Trial Purge (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/alex-marquardt-cnn-exit-defamation-trial
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p94#a250603p94

Pacific Freedom Forum Chair Robert Iroga says Pacific countries are facing a "critical moment" for press freedom, as journalists face lawsuits and prosecution (Kate Lyons/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/…

Trump fails to dismiss Central Park 5 defamation lawsuit
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/he-does-not-cite-any-authority-trump-fails-to-dismiss-central-park-5-defamation-lawsuit-uses-wrong-argument/

UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation over a May 21 story about nursing home cost-cutting, accusing the outlet of capitalizing on its CEO's killing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/04…

UnitedHealthcare lawsuit accuses Guardian of trying to ‘capitalize’ on CEO’s killing
UnitedHealth is being represented by Clare Locke, a firm that’s made a name for itself aggressively pursuing defamation lawsuits against the media.