The ongoing prosecution of journalist Landry Ulrich Nguéma Ngokpélé in the Central African Republic has drawn significant attention and concern from international media advocacy groups. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently called on the nation’s authorities to halt the legal proceedings and release Ngokpélé, the editor of “Le Quotidien de Bangui.” The journalist was…
Benjamin “BitBoy” Armstrong, a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency community, was arrested in Florida on a fugitive warrant linked to a series of threatening emails allegedly sent to Judge Kimberly A. Childs in Georgia. Judge Childs is overseeing a legal battle involving Armstrong, initiated by Hit Network and BJ Investment Holdings. The companies accused him…
In a case that will potentially redefine the legal parameters of defamatory remarks, the Georgia High Court is set to examine the issue of when words exchanged by counsel may be construed as defamatory. The case at heart implicates defense attorney Zach Matthews of McMickle Kurey & Branch. He is alleged to have cast aspersions…