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What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters

Popular Media

“HAVE A SCORE TO SETTLE WITH THE PRESS? Charles Harder, the media lawyer who ground Gawker.com to dust, is your man.”

That was the subhead of a GQ profile of Harder published in 2016, after he won a $140 million jury verdict for Hulk Hogan against Gawker (later settled for $31 million). The profile went on to say that Harder had established himself “as perhaps the greatest threat in the United States to journalists, the First Amendment, and the very notion of a free press.”

Whether or not that’s true, Harder has said it would be “awesome” if the Gawker …

Review Law: New York Defamation Applied To Online Consumer Reviews, Ian Lewis-Slammon

St. John's Law Review

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In early July 2017, Michelle Levine booked her first and only appointment with gynecologist Dr. Joon Song for an annual exam. Ms. Levine had a dissatisfying experience with the office. She claims that Dr. Song’s office did not follow up with her for almost a month, and that when she called to ask about the results of a blood test, Dr. Song’s staff falsely informed her that she tested positive for herpes. To top it off, Ms. Levine alleges that the office overcharged her. Following this experience, Ms. Levine did what many others do when dissatisfied with a product …

Partisipasi Perempuan Dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Di Dewan Adat Terkait Dengan Penyelesaian Kasus-Kasus Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan: Kisah Dari Atambua, Sumba Timur, Rote Dan Labuan Bajo, Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Based on Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, especially in Articles 2c, 5a, 7b and c, 15 (1) and (2) women and men are equal. If there are any discriminations, the states which have ratified the Convention shall eliminate the discriminations from rules or tradition or practices. Women in some indigenous communities have some limitation in decision making process, even in the process to get solution in violence aghaainst women cases. For examples in Rote, Labuan Bajo, East Sumba and Atambua (East Nusa Tenggara) women have limited access to the decision-making process in indigenous forums even in cases of …

Pencemaran Nama Baik Dan Penghinaan Melalui Media Teknologi Informasi Komunikasi Di Indonesia Pasca Amandemen Uu Ite, Anton Hendrik Samudra

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The amendment of the ITE Law is conducted to provide better legal certainty. This is an effort to respond to society development and aims to provide better legal protection and justice. The implementation of freedom of expression in the media of Information Communication Technology (ICT) affecting the number of defamation. With the amendment of ITE law, it is necessary to examine the nature of defamation offense and libel through ICT media.