Recent News About The Boston Globe
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Blankenship says now is the time to overrule landmark defamation case
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship say his defamation case against Fox News and other media outlets is the perfect one for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overruling a landmark case about press freedoms. -
Blankenship wants U.S. Supreme court to hear defamation case
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit Court opinion in his defamation case against Fox News and other media outlets. -
Blankenship's media defamation case moves forward with fewer defendants
CHARLESTON – A federal judge has refused to dismiss defamation claims against nearly two dozen media outlets and others from a case in which Don Blankenship alleges they called him felon. -
Trump Jr. wants Blankenship's defamation case against him dismissed
CHARLESTON – Donald Trump Jr. has filed a motion to dismiss Don Blankenship’s defamation lawsuit against him. -
Blankenship files third defamation suit, this time against Boston Globe
WILLIAMSON – Don Blankenship has filed a third defamation lawsuit in as many months, this time singling out The Boston Globe for being involved in a conspiracy to keep him from being elected in 2018 to the U.S. Senate. -
Judge in massive opioid case watching plaintiff lawyer spending, orders them to fly coach
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry ordered plaintiffs’ attorneys to keep monthly records of the time they spend on their cases down to a tenth of an hour and imposed strict rules on who can collect fees, in an effort to prevent the excesses that have drawn criticism in other class actions and mass tort cases.