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Legal Frontiers in Digital Media 2026
This year’s sessions will cover AI product liability, AI training data control, and efforts to reduce harmful chatbot outputs, along with global child-safety regulation and developments in EU intermediary liability.
A comprehensive White Paper heralding Justice Brennan’s opinion, countering the arguments made by its chief critics, and analyzing the role of actual malice in contemporary litigation.
This new edition builds on the excellent work done in past versions of the Practice Guide by adding important new case law to existing sections, as well as adding new sections. Most notably, the Practice Guide now includes an in-depth look at the pleading standards for actual malice under the Supreme Court’s Twombly and Iqbal…
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MediaLawLetter January 2026
New Jersey Court Denies Anti-SLAPP Motion in Political Speech Case; Texas Pickleball-Tennis Feud Defamation Case to Proceed; Court Quashes Journalist Subpoena Under New York Shield Law; January 6, 2021: Saving the Truth from the Whitewash; Ten Questions for NYT’s Al-Amyn Sumar and more.
MediaLawLetter December 2025
Ninth Circuit Eliminates Interlocutory Review from the Denial of Anti-SLAPP Motions; Trump Media Group Case Against Media Outlets Dismissed; Confessions of an Architectural Tortfeasor: The Buying Beverly Hills Lawsuit; Santa’s Gift List for 2025 Media Figures; Ten Questions for New Jersey lawyer Bruce Rosen and more.
MediaLawLetter October 2025
RFK Jr. Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against Maine-Based Daily Kos Blogger; Disney’s Selection of Bands for Concerts Is Within Scope of California’s Anti-SLAPP Law; Federal Court Permanently Blocks Unprecedented Texas Book Rating Law; Ten Questions for Dublin lawyer Karyn Harty and more.