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60 Minutes Allows Laid Off Federal Employees to Whine: ‘All Gone Overnight’

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 17, 2025 82 Comments

The program also showcased how Germany cracks down on speech....

Anti-Islam Activist Murdered in Sweden Had Bounty on His Head for Staging Quran-Burning Protests

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on January 30, 2025 29 Comments

"How many more need to be slaughtered before the world stops lying to itself and admits the truth—we have an #ISLAM problem."...

Lawsuit: White House Press Office Unconstitutionally Targeted Reporter With New Credentialing Requirement

Posted by Terrance Kible on August 23, 2023 21 Comments

The revised requirement came after heated exchanges between the reporter and White House Press Secretary over the White House's alleged refusal to answer the reporter's questions....

Police Chief Allegedly Identified Theft in Affidavits to Justify Marion County Record Raid

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 21, 2023 14 Comments

“As I have said numerous times in the last week, it is not a crime in America to be a reporter. These affidavits prove that the only so-called ‘crime’ Chief Cody was investigating was being a reporter.”...

Kansas Paper Raided by Police was Investigating Police Chief Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 15, 2023 45 Comments

"When he was named Chief just two months ago, we got an outpouring of calls from his former co-workers making a wide array of allegations against him saying that he was about to be demoted at his previous job and that he retired to avoid...

Kansas Police Criticized for Raiding Local Newspaper Office and Home of Publisher

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 14, 2023 30 Comments

It doesn't matter the size of the publication. All media institutions are vulnerable....

Judge Finds NY Times Improperly Obtained Project Veritas Attorney-Client Communications

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2021 28 Comments

The NY Times obtained and published privileged documents of a party (Project Veritas) who was litigating against the NY Times. The Judge Ordered the NY Times to return and not to use the privileged documents, and to expunge the documents from its systems....

Fearing Negative Coverage, ‘American Muslims for Palestine’ Conference Ejects Legal Insurrection Reporter

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on November 30, 2019 42 Comments

I have researched and written extensively about American Muslims for Palestine, a key connector of anti-Israel Islamist and radical leftist groups, including fringe anti-Zionist Jews who provide cover. You can read more about AMP and the groups it works with in these posts by me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scH13YZRpIw

Planned Parenthood has Been Asking Journalists to Sign NDAs at Events

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 22, 2019 14 Comments

Vice reporter Carter Sherman revealed that Planned Parenthood had asked her two times to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) at a happy hour for the media. The abortion organization asked her to sign one in 2018 when Sherman covered its Power of Pink volunteer training event. This second NDA rightfully upset Sherman, who informed Planned Parenthood she planned to call them out on their agreements with reporters. Now the organization has scurried to clear up this apparent "misunderstanding." (Please note the sarcasm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkpPaiUF8s#action=share

Judge Reopens Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2019 31 Comments

In late July 2019, a federal district Judge in the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed the lawsuit by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post. For background on the dismissal and the underlying legal issues, see our post, Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post DISMISSED.

Sarah Palin defamation lawsuit against NY Times reinstated by appeals court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2019 16 Comments

Sarah Palin sued the NY Times for defamation regarding the (false) allegation that an electoral map she used was connected to the shooting of Gabby Giffords by Jared Loughner. As we reported at the time, there was no connection, it was a fabrication of left-wing bloggers. The rest of the world got the message, but not the NY Times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JMkzakXgIY

Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post DISMISSED

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2019 72 Comments

When Nicholas Sandmann filed suit against The Washington Post (and later CNN and NBC) for defamation, I expressed skepticism that the lawsuit would survive a motion to dismiss:

German State Broadcaster Blocked Me For Objecting To Their Citing An Antisemitic Politician

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on June 20, 2019 11 Comments

As an Indian journalist living in Germany, I often analyze German media coverage for the Legal Insurrection and other publications. Germany's state-run international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and its English language service DW News have been a go-to source for news related to state policy, official comments and statistics.

Washington Post seeks dismissal of Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit, says reporting was “neither false nor defamatory”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2019 15 Comments

Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann sued The Washington Post for defamation related to its coverage of the incident in which Sandmann was portrayed as the perpetrator of the harassment of a Native American 'elder' after the March for Life in D.C. Sandmann also sued CNN in a separate lawsuit, and other lawsuits may follow.

Nicholas Sandmann Sues CNN – Read the Complaint with Exhibits

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2019 44 Comments

Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington, Kentucky teen maligned by the media, has filed his second lawsuit. The first lawsuit was against The Washington Post, Covington teen Nicholas Sandmann sues The Washington Post for defamation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcirjxDoe7k

Myanmar De Facto Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Jailing of Two Reuters Journalists

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 13, 2018 3 Comments

Earlier this month, a Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in jail after they exposed the human rights abuses by the Myanmar military on the Rohingya minority. The judge claimed the two men “collected and obtained confidential documents.” Now Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, defended the jailing of the journalists at a World Economic Forum summit.

http://interactive.tegna-media.com/video/embed/embed.html?id=2421497&type=video&title=Store%20shoplifting%20incident%20sparks%20protests&site=95&playerid=6918249996581&dfpid=32805352&dfpposition=Video_prestream_external%C2%A7ion=home

Oberlin College goes after another news organization’s communications

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2018 20 Comments

Oberlin College attempted to subpoena the communications of WAJ Media LLC (dba Legal Insurrection) with sources regarding our reporting on an Ohio lawsuit by Gibson's Bakery of Oberlin, Ohio, against Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo. The subpoena specifically sought our communications with the attorneys for Gibson's, who had provided us with a statement about the case that we published as part of our reporting, Gibson’s Bakery sues Oberlin College over racial profiling accusations, Oberlin cuts business ties:

After legal challenge, Oberlin College withdraws subpoena seeking our journalist communications

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2018 35 Comments

Subpoena sought communications relating to our reporting on a lawsuit brought by Gibson's Bakery against Oberlin College....

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