Trump's $475M CNN Defamation Fight Reaches Supreme Court
Trump's petition to the Supreme Court directly tests the boundary between opinion and actionable fact in defamation law after the Eleventh Circuit held CNN's "Big Lie" characterization was nonactionable. The case implicates Milkovich v. Lorain Journal, actual malice for public figures, and rhetorical hyperbole protections. Attorneys and compliance teams should monitor whether the Court grants cert and clarifies pleading standards for media defamation claims.
Source: Matthew Vadum (us) · theepochtimes.com