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How to Fight Back Against Online Defamation
Always striving not to reinvent the wheel, I keep my eyes open for articles that do a good job of explaining basic legal concepts. In that regard, I receive many calls from prospective clients who...
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Australian Defamation Case Illustrates Life Without the CDA
"That J-Lo, she be crazy!" I have frequently written here on the pros and cons of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”). Without it, no website could permit comments, but by the same token it allows...
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Some Judges Just Don’t “Get” Defamation
I run into this attitude from judges occasionally. Thankfully, I’ve always been able to turn them around, but when I read about it, it still raises my hackles a little. The attitude of which I speak...
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Judge Orders Man to Apologize to Ex-Wife on Facebook
Clients sometimes ask me to seek a letter of apology as part of a defamation settlement. I have managed to do so on a number of occasions, but I usually recommend a letter of retraction as opposed to...
View ArticleHacienda Heights Doctor, Pankaj Karan, Hit with $1.5 Million Judgment for...
In this case, we represented a business and the individual who owns that business. The defendant, a medical doctor named Pankaj Karan, was starting his own business, MDTelexchange, and traveled to an...
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Court Finds that Statement about Cause of Suicide is an Opinion
An interesting defamation case out of New York, involving the world of music and illustrating the burden of proof. As explained here on various occasions, truth is a defense (a point sadly lost on...
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It’s Not Defamation if No One Knows it’s You
As the old saying goes, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?* In the context of defamation law, the saying could be, “if no one knows it’s you, is the...
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Defamation is Bad, but it Doesn’t Justify Chilling Free Speech
Our neighbors to the North are very American-like, until you get to issues of free speech. Most view Canada as the “least protective of free speech in the English-speaking world.” Reasonable minds can...
View ArticleThe Girl in the Red Bikini — A Facebook Tale
I present now a fascinating case that serves to illustrate a couple of points about Internet defamation. We’ll call this one the Girl in the Red Bikini. Enter the Fayette County School District in...
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