In this article, the defamation team at Buckingham describes the distinctions between defamation claims for public and private figures and how to understand the burden of proof required for each ...

But the court also held that, even as to those statements, Mason was a "limited public figure" and thus had to prove "actual malice"—i.e., knowing or reckless falsehood—which she could not do ...

The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political ...

We understand Cruce was a public employee and enjoyed media attention akin to that of many sports figures. But that does not transform him into a public official, a classification that would strip ...

LESS well remembered than Lord Acton’s celebrated aphorism about the corrupting effects of power is his dictum that “Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not show it can ...

Romanee Virgara of Adelaide, Australia, quit her job as a logistics manager in February 2023 to become a business coach and public figure. Virgara told SWNS, the British news service, that she ...

Preliminary research suggests that grief after the death of a public figure looks very similar to grief over personal ...

For some of those protesters, their activism has made them a “limited-purpose” or “vortex” public figure — someone who has “thrust themselves to the forefront of particular public controversies in ...

But the mood among public artists in Pennsylvania was different at the beginning ... startling moments of disconnection await the viewer of “The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, ...