Anonymous ID: e3f3ef Sept. 7, 2018, 10:10 a.m. No.2921567   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1586 >>1616

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Lawfag here. Article is garbage. Defamation against a "public figure" is almost impossible under the NYT v. Sullivan standard. You have to literally prove they knew what they were saying was Bullshit at the time they said it. There are lesser cases (non Scotus) that allow for damages under purposeful avoidance of the truth (interviewing 10 people then quoting the only one who said what you wanted to hear) but these have not been reviewed by SCOTUS.

Having a defamation case dismissed when you are a public figure is a nothing burger. If they can make you into a public figure, "You get nothing, there it is, black and white, plain as day, you lose, good day sir.