Defamation of governments and government enterprises
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the law on whether a governmental body or a commercial enterprise owned by a government can maintain an action for defamation. It is now widely accepted that a government cannot sue for defamation. But this is not a unanimous view. The extent to which the bar to governmental defamation actions applies to government-owned enterprises is uncertain. In the reported cases, courts have rejected defamation actions by government-owned commercial enterprises. However, government ownership should not categorically prevent a corporation from having the remedies for false defamatory statements available to other corporations.
Source: Common Law World Review
Author: Peter B Kutner
Institution: University of Oklahoma
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4409487610