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Video

Video 1: Tort law project: Slander versus Libel

Description: Humorous video that sorts out the difference between slander and libel. The TORT LAW project is a corporate video that was created for use as an educational supplement to a series of Legal textbooks. This series of videos was produced by James Huffman and Indie City Entertainment for an established legal publishing company. This video features Diana Hart as the Attorney and James Huffman as the Client.

Web

Web 1: The Missouri Sunshine Law

Description: Missouri's Sunshine Law is the embodiment of Missouri's commitment to openness in government. Chapter 610 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri is the foundation of what has become known as Missouri's Sunshine Law. This page is a resource to help Missourians understand the Missouri Sunshine Law and its implications for public and quasi-public governmental bodies, members of those bodies, those that conduct business with a public governmental body, and private citizens.

Web 2: Why Trump wouldn’t win a libel suit against the New York Times

Description: Poynter explains why the president could not win a libel suit against the Times. Even false statements by the media against public officials are immune from libel suits as long as they were published without "actual malice." That means the paper knew they were false or published them with "reckless disregard" of whether they were accurate.

Web 3: Melissa Click, the First Amendment and a criminal trial

Description: If the case of Melissa Click, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Missouri at Columbia, were a law professor’s hypothetical, it’d be a great one.