Vincent Biskupic is a former Outagamie County District Attorney and an unsuccessful candidate for Wisconsin Attorney General. He claims he was defamed by a newspaper article published by the Shawano Leader in August 2004. The article incorrectly stated Biskupic had been involved in bribery and graft.

2 Biskupic sued eight defendants, including the Leader, several of its employees,

The petitioners, Action Wisconsin, Inc., and Christopher Ott, seek review of an unpublished court of appeals decision reversing a circuit court judgment that required attorney James R. Donohoo to pay costs and attorney fees for filing and maintaining a defamation lawsuit that was frivolous.[1] The defamation lawsuit was commenced in response to a press release issued by Action Wisconsin.

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When the defendants in this case began to manufacture a cement mixer similar to one manufactured by Cemen Tech (CTI), CTI sued them, alleging breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, and breach of fiduciary duty. The district court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment on virtually all of the plaintiff's claims, and the plaintiff appealed. We af

Send this document to a colleague Close This Window After his employment with Mobil Chemical Company ceased, Thomas Louis sued his former employer and two supervisors, James Bowser and Randall Roy, for intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and retaliation. The trial court granted summary judgment for all defendants. The four issues raised by Thomas on appeal conte

The plaintiff, a sophomore at Neuqua Valley High School, a large public high school in Naperville, Illinois, has brought suit against the school district and school officials contending that they are violating his right to free speech by forbidding him to make negative comments at school about homosexuality. He moved for a preliminary injunction, which was denied, and he appeals the denial.

An attorney published a newspaper advertisement stating that users of certain brand name galvanized screws under specified circumstances "may" have legal rights to compensation or other relief. The manufacturer of one of the named brands brought this action for defamation, trade libel, false advertising, and unfair business practices. We are called upon to decide: (1) Is this a strategic lawsu

Debra Lewis brought this action against: her employer, Freeburg Community School District No. 70; the school superintendent, Rob Hawkins; the school district's attorney, Shane Jones; the school board; and members of the school board in their individual capacities.1 She alleged violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; she also brought supplemental s

MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions Decision: 2008 ME 68 Docket: Cum-07-435 Submitted On Briefs: February 28, 2008 [1] Pamela St. John appeals from a judgment of dismissal entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Crowley, J.) on her complaint against Jeffrey Jordan and the City of South Portland brought pursuant to the Whistleblowers' Protection Act, 26 M.R.S. §§

This insurance-coverage action represents the third case in a series of lawsuits stemming from the marketing of Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid drug. See In re Synthroid Mktg. Litig., 264 F.3d 712 (7th Cir. 2001); Knoll Pharm. Co. v. Auto. Ins. Co., 152 F. Supp. 2d 1026 (N.D. Ill. 2001). The first case - a multidistrict litigation - consolidated numerous class actions filed by consumers and

Plaintiffs SDV/ACCI, Tonia Metz and Gerald Metz brought this action against AT&T and one of its employees, Margaret Roman, alleging that Ms. Roman defamed the plaintiffs in the course of her employment. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, ruling that the Metzes were not proper plaintiffs, and that the allegedly defamatory statements were conditionally privileged.

We plumb the depths of the immunity provided by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 ("CDA").

Facts

Defendant Roommate.com, LLC ("Roommate") operates a website designed to match people renting out spare rooms with people looking for a place to live.2 At the time of the district court's disposition, Roommate's website featured approximately 150,000 active listings

[1] CC Builders, Inc. (CC Builders) built Wayne and Pamela Garrison (the Garrisons) a house in Teton County, Wyoming, on a ―cost plus‖ basis. This litigation resulted from the parties' subsequent disagreement as to the reasonable cost of construction. Both parties have appealed from the district court's award of damages and costs to the Garrisons. We affirm in part and reverse in p

This is an appeal from an order granting a special motion to strike under the anti- SLAPP statute. (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16.)1 An employer fired one of its employees amid allegations that the employee had misappropriated customer lists and solicited his employer's customers to start a competing business. Several months before litigation was commenced by the employer against its former emplo

American Chemical Society sued LeadScope, Inc. claiming that LeadScope used proprietary information from the American Chemical Society. It also accused LeadScope's founders of violating employment agreements with Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus when they formed their business in 1997.

LeadScope, Paul Blowers and Wayne Johns denied wrongdoing and counterclaimed on defamation, unfair co

This is an appeal of a denial of a motion to set aside judgments entered in favor of David Duvall and against James Maxey in two cases. Because we find error in one of the cases in the trial court's failure to base its award of actual and punitive damages on the evidence, we vacate the judgments and remand for a hearing on the actual and punitive damages in that case. In all other respects, the ju

The plaintiff homeowner, Gina Fiordelisi, appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County confirming the arbitration award entered on her claims against the defendant contractor, Mt. Pleasant, LLC. The homeowner sued the contractor for breach of contract, negligence, intentional misrepresentation, and establishment of a constructive trust in connection with the parties' contract for

[1.] This opinion encompasses two separate appeals dealing with the same parties but involving independent issues and facts. Each will be addressed separately. In #24991, Cheryl Jacobson appeals the circuit court's decision denying her request for attorney fees, and in #24492 & #24498, Kevin Leisinger appeals the circuit court's dismissal of his defamation action against Jacobson.

JACOBSON'S

Kenneth and Rachel Seymour appeal from the district court's1 order granting summary judgment to the City of Des Moines, Iowa ("the City"), and Des Moines police officers Detective Brian Danner and Sergeant Barry Arnold (collectively "the defendants"). We affirm.

I.

A. The Events of March 20, 2002

On March 20, 2002, the Seymours (whom we shall refer to by their first names) we

[1] This case invites us to address Maine's anti-SLAPP1 statute, 14 M.R.S. § 556 (2007), in the context of political, and possibly defamatory, speech contained in a Legislator's letter to the editor. In doing so, we conclude that the suit against the defendant cannot proceed.

[2] R. Kenneth Lindell appeals from an order denying his special motion to dismiss filed pursuant to 14 M.R.S. Â

Plaintiff-appellant, Sergeant Peter J. Damon ("Damon"), a former Sergeant in the Army Reserves, appeals from the dismissal of his defamation claim stemming from the non-consensual use of an interview he conducted for NBC Nightly News ("NBC") in the documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" ("documentary"). According to Damon, defendants-appellees ("Appellees"), and more specifically, Michael Moore ("Moore"),

We must decide whether a county supervisor's hostile public statements directed at a company owning and managing several local mobile home parks were actionable as a matter of law.

I Manufactured Home Communities, Inc. ("MHC"), a real estate investment trust headquartered in Chicago, owns and operates mobile home parks through the United States. The three parks at issue here - Lamplig

Galen Richey was seriously injured when he fell from the roof of his sister's house while attempting to remove a large tree limb. He sued his sister's insurance provider, American Family Mutual Insurance Company, and Catherine M. Philipp, the insurance agent that procured the American Family homeowner's policy on behalf of Richey's sister. Richey sought damages for the bodily injuries he sustained

This dispute involves the familiar small business deal gone bad story. The agreement underlying the transaction contains an arbitration clause that one side of the transaction wishes to enforce and the other side wishes to avoid. The particular issue addressed in this decision is who - this court or an arbitrator - should decide whether and to what extent the parties' claims should be arbi

Defendants Bradley J. Chrustawka, Anjanette Chrustawka, nee Price (Price), and Katherine M. Matonic obtained summary adjudication of five causes of action on the grounds they were barred by the applicable statute of limitations and were not tolled by Code of Civil Procedure section 351 (section 351). Because those were the only causes of action alleged against the latter two, the trial court e

Plaintiff debtors brought claims against a lender and a credit reporting agency under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act ("the Act"), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., the Iowa Debt Collection Practices Act, Iowa Code § 537.7101 et seq., and Iowa's common law of defamation. The district court1 granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, and we affirm.

Plaintiff Richard Dowell, a ph