Below, more on the Depp-Heard case and libel law: The media and the trial: In an article headlined “The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial,” A.O. Scott, a film critic at the Times, argued that the case devolved from “a clear-cut case of domestic violence” into “a ‘both sides’ melodrama.” The “convention of courtroom …

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