When civil litigation turns ugly, it sometimes devolves into allegations of defamation not just between the parties, but against their lawyers as well. In light of the broad privilege cloaking ...

Allegations of defamation and conspiracy to defame alone are insufficient to establish the crime-fraud exception and defeat the attorney-client privilege, the Illinois Appellate Court recently held.

An Illinois appellate court reversed a discovery order compelling the defendant law firm to produce privileged communications with its client in a defamation action under the crime-fraud exception.

Appellate Court Sides With Firms Ordered to Disclose Communications in Megachurch Defamation Suit "Extending the crime-fraud exception to claims like MacDonald's would risk deterring clients from ...

A Delhi court has set aside a magistrate's order taking cognisance of a criminal defamation complaint filed by AAP leader Satyendar Jain against BJP MLA Karnail Singh, citing that the order did not ...

From Corso Ventures LLC v. Paye, decided Tuesday by the Ohio Court of Appeals (Judge Betsy Luper Schuster, joined by Judges William Klatt and Jullia Dorrian (affirming the decision I blogged about ...

A Delhi court reserved its order on taking cognisance of a defamation complaint by former minister Satyender Jain against BJP ...

The article is here; the Abstract: In recent years, a series of high-profile defamation cases has wound up in bankruptcy court, involving such colorful characters as Rudy Giuliani, Alex Jones, and ...

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