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Outtakes and Vagabonds: I was once on a jury for a case that settled
I, too, was disappointed in Dominion’s settlement with Fox, most likely because I had wild expectations that it’d mean the End of Fox. Eventually. But pretty quickly I exited the realm of alternative reality and understood the settlement meant the … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Journalism, Judiciary, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged actual malice, Dominion, Dominion vs Fox, First Amendment, Fox, juries, NYCHA, NYT v Sullivan, power of juries, Smartmatic, voir dire
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Defamation: Trump’s ignorance about the law and the First Amendment
The creature just does not understanding anything. A solid read from Publisher’s Marketplace, with a little bit of bolding: A Different Fury: Trump Inspires Free Speech Defenders President Trump gave a big boost to nonprofits that safeguard freedom of the … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged actual malice, defamation, First Amendment, libel law, New York Times v Sullivan, Trump and libel law
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Oh foo. We have to define defamation again. AGAIN
Now that Trump has, once again, in a tiresome lifetime of such tiresome threatened lawsuits, threatened a lawsuit for defamation against Michael Wolff and his publisher, Holt, I guess it’s time to return to the legal definition of defamation, i.e., … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged actual malice, anti-SLAPP, defamation, defamation definition, defamation lawsuits, Donald Trump, Fire and Fury, libel definition, libel lawsuits, Michael Woolf, Public Participation Project, SLAPP
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