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Supreme Court Rejects Dershowitz Defamation Case | US News
Alan Dershowitz’s high-stakes defamation battle against CNN hit a major roadblock when the Supreme Court declined to hear his case, leaving the “actual malice” standard intact — a 1964 legal benchmark that makes it nearly impossible for public figures to win libel suits. Though Dershowitz argued CNN distorted his words defending Trump, lower courts sided with CNN, and the Court’s refusal wasn’t surprising — they rarely take on such cases. Yet Dershowitz believes the Court missed a pivotal opportunity to modernize First Amendment law. He doesn’t seek to scrap the rule entirely, but to make it…
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