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 ...

He denied those charges, as well. “I’ve been sober from alcohol for 1,558 days, so to press me on a DUI, I’m a public figure,” he said. The description for one of his last YouTube videos ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Although we may not have met these public figures before their passing, they potentially would have been part of our growing up and our personal history, making them familiar figures,” notes ...

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

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, ...

Even with the noblest of intentions, political appointees and elected politicians can go astray. Among dozens, three glaring ...