January 28, 2015
The Second Circuit on Wednesday rejected unusual libel claims that the defense likened to something out of the novel "1984": that online news reports from Hearst Corp. could become retroactively defamatory because of a quirky state law that "erases" arrest records.
August 18, 2014
A Hearst Corp. attorney urged the Second Circuit on Monday to toss a class-action defamation suit over the media company's refusal to remove or update online reports about criminal charges that are later dismissed, describing the case as an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history.