Libel Law in the Trenches: Reflections on Current Data on Libel Litigation

Logan, David A.

doi:10.2307/1073865

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“…687-88). The accuracy in the sense 27 To get an idea of that probability in practice, in a study of US defamation litigation in the 1980s and 1990s, Logan (2001) reported that around 85% of claims filed by public figure plaintiffs were dismissed before trial.…”

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Libel Bullies, Defamation Victims, and Litigation Incentives

Acheson¹,

Wohlschlegel²

2020

JITE

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Section: Legal Reformmentioning

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Libel Bullies, Defamation Victims, and Litigation Incentives

Acheson¹,

Wohlschlegel²

2020

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“…82 In the final analysis, David A. Logan concludes, "media defendants end up paying out only a tiny fraction of the damages claimed by aggrieved plaintiffs, and only a small portion of that awarded by juries." 83 The Importance of Procedure It is not possible to do justice to this data in the available space. For the purpose of this analysis, three broad conclusions are worthy of elaboration.…”

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RereadingNew York Times v. Sullivan: The Importance of Procedure in Libel Cases

Herbeck¹

2013

First Amendment Studies

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“…According to a study by David A. Logan, the success rate of plaintiffs for summary judgment motions from 1980 to 1996 was 17.7 percent (2001, 500–11). Plaintiffs in 60 percent of cases prevailed in trial once they survived the summary judgment (Logan 2001, 512–13). The success rate from 1980 to 2003 after trial rises to 38.7 percent, according to Media Law Research Center (2004, 19).…”

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The Protection of Reputation in Japan: A Systematic Analysis of Defamation Cases

Kitajima¹

2012

Law soc. inq.

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Although Japanese defamation law has been a subject of legal interest for scholars and judges, their main focus was the defamation rules that appeared in cases publicized by legal reporters. The following study coded 232 defamation cases against the media that were decided in district courts in Japan, according to the type of database that reported the cases. Statistical results reveal that newspapers are more likely to report defamation cases than other databases because stories about defamation cases may satisfy readers' interest or because the newspaper might have been informed by plaintiffs who won their cases. The results also show that the professional status of the plaintiff is a predictor of the case outcome. Politicians and officials are less likely to win in defamation cases than are executives and criminals, and they received lower damages than athletes and entertainers.

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Libel Law in the Trenches: Reflections on Current Data on Libel Litigation

Cited by 7 publications

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Libel Bullies, Defamation Victims, and Litigation Incentives

Libel Bullies, Defamation Victims, and Litigation Incentives

RereadingNew York Times v. Sullivan: The Importance of Procedure in Libel Cases

The Protection of Reputation in Japan: A Systematic Analysis of Defamation Cases

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