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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/27\/23184792\/supreme-court-coral-ridge-splc-petition-denied-libel-law-actual-malice<\/a>
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The Supreme Court has turned down a request to revisit a decades-old libel ruling, despite a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas. This morning, the court denied a petition<\/a> to hear Coral Ridge Ministries Media v. Southern Poverty Law Center<\/em><\/a>, in which an evangelical Christian ministry accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of falsely designating it as an anti-LGBTQ hate group.<\/p>\n

If it had overturned the ruling, the Supreme Court would have greatly increased the odds of public figures winning libel cases in the future. Instead, the decision delays (but likely won\u2019t end) a long-running push to expand the scope of defamation law.<\/p>\n

Coral Ridge Ministries Media v. SPLC <\/em>hinges on the \u201cactual malice\u201d standard \u2014 a protection that means public figures must show a false statement was made knowingly or with reckless disregard for its truth in order to win a defamation case. In 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals determined<\/a> the SPLC hadn\u2019t acted with actual malice when it added Coral Ridge Ministries (also known as Truth in Action and D. James Kennedy Ministries) to its \u201cHate Map.\u201d Coral Ridge Ministries asked the Supreme Court to reexamine its ruling in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan<\/em>, the case that established the \u201cactual malice\u201d standard in the first place.<\/p>\n

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