We understand Cruce was a public employee and enjoyed media attention akin to that of many sports figures. But that does not transform him into a public official, a classification that would strip ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court recently decided that a high school football coach was not a public official or a public figure for purposes of a defamation claim. The decision meant the ...

But the court also held that, even as to those statements, Mason was a "limited public figure" and thus had to prove "actual malice"—i.e., knowing or reckless falsehood—which she could not do ...

LESS well remembered than Lord Acton’s celebrated aphorism about the corrupting effects of power is his dictum that “Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not show it can ...

Preliminary research suggests that grief after the death of a public figure looks very similar to grief over personal ...

There are more than 117,000 teachers in New Jersey. Is each one of them a public figure? Not exactly. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may ...

“Although we may not have met these public figures before their passing, they potentially would have been part of our growing up and our personal history, making them familiar figures,” notes ...

But the mood among public artists in Pennsylvania was different at the beginning ... startling moments of disconnection await the viewer of “The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, ...

According to Dr. Lichtenthal, parasocial relationships can be thought of as one-sided relationships involving a sense of connection to a public figure who one does not personally know. How do we ...