The High Court of Lesotho found the printer of a newspaper liable for defamation following the publication of an article suggesting that the Prime Minister was dishonest. The printer argued that the article was not defamatory, that the printer itself had not been negligent in printing the newspaper, and that the printer should not be held strictly liable for the printing of a defamatory article.
The High Court of Lesotho held that the Mirror newspaper and its journalist were liable for defamation by failing to ascertain the truth of statements about the Plaintiff before publication. The Plaintiff politician sued following an article accusing him of using a community-owned tractor for his personal benefit.
The Supreme Court of Arizona held that the City of Phoenix was required to disclose metadata, the electronic information concerning the history of an electronic document, pursuant to Arizona's freedom of information law. Mr. Lake made this request in the context of an employment discrimination lawsuit in which he suspected that the City had backdated the paper copies provided.
The Court of Liquidation and Judgment held that the Paraguayan Constitution provides that people have the right to petition governmental authorities for information as well as the right to be provided with that information, unless the authority timely responds with an exception specifically provided for by the American Convention on Human Rights and related regional jurisprudence.
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and to advance understanding of the norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression.
