DEFAMATION -- LIBEL AND SLANDER [Florida Law - FReepers Heed]

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[NeoCaveman]

DEFAMATION -- LIBEL AND SLANDER; (Becareful what you say about the Clintons)

[dead]

Isn't CP like the Emperor or something?

No, he's either the mystic high exalted ruler or a lawyer with delusions.

[lugsoul]

I'm sure you believe the only possible reason is because it is all true.

I guess it could be because this situation has generated a lot of difficult emotion for everyone in Terri's family, and everyone who knows her, and he doesn't really want to sue her Dad. Yep, I can see where he'd have much less reason to hesitate about suing say, you, than he would about suing his wife's dad.

[TheAngryClam]

I'm partial to the 4th, particularly when Luttig and Wilkinson are on opposite sides of a decision.

[Poohbah]

I've said that I will fight any subpoena to the best of my ability. I've also said that I'm not going to protect anyone who makes really stupid or illegal statements, ie, threats of violence or really vicious personal attacks, etc, that we don't want here anyway. I recommend not posting anything that will possibly result in a lawsuit or potentially a jail term.

Thank you, Jim.

[Paul L. Hepperla]

Eschoir?

[1L]

A lawsuit is much more frightening than a fist fight and can lead to much more long-term damage.

OK, well, try this: I'm 6', 240 with about 13% BF (and going down) and while I always avoid trouble like the plague, I'm well prepared for it with ample schooling in martial arts offensive techniques and self defense type defensive techniques, and am usually well armed. I'm also a trial lawyer (primarily defense) who's pretty much an expert on personal jurisdiction law (mainly Texas, but I know enough about other states) who would never be subject to jurisdiction of a Florida court, or to a Federal Court in Florida. A lawsuit doesn't frighten me in the least.

Now, will someone please tell me what this post is about, other than a treatise on Florida defamation law and all us screwballs talking about how (supposedly) tough we are on an anonymous network?

[harrowup]

Try googling the word "defamation", then wade through the hits.

When you try to intimidate folks you need to be more than loud...

You made the claim:

... there are literally thousands of defamation suits that result favorably for plaintiffs - including against the press, and many of those for statements of opinion.

... 79 posted on 10/24/2003 11:01 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine

Back it up with the facts or retract.

If you don't you can be charged with intimidation

That's why I want all your aliases. Think about it. Once we get to discovery you'll have to pay for the search time...and we wouldn't want Opey and Habsey to work that off in the Pokey...

Face it, fella. You are a blowhard who keeps going just one more step over the line.

[AppyPappy]

Is that a knock at your door?

[honeygrl]

"If they win the lawsuit, then they can start poking around in your financial affairs to see if you are actually broke. "

Well, I really am broke. I owe more than all my stuff is worth. (which isn't much) We could probably file for bankruptcy right now, but I don't think it's fair to not pay back people I owe money to.

[onyx]

Skipped right past #251 didn't ya?

Looks the the big guy is more in agreement with me than you. :)

[Porterville]

It is about some disgruntled lawyer in Florida mad at the FR and wanting to scare the older folks here who may know little about the Internet.... IMO

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Whats this "we get to discovery" schtick? Whatcha suin' me for?

[lonevoice]

George Felos can talk about reputation...

BWAHAHAHA!!

On pages 181-182 of his book, Felos claims that merely by visualizing a plane crash during a flight he was taking back to Florida, he caused the plane to begin to crash and that God spoke to him at that moment to warn him: "Be careful what you think. You are more powerful than you realize". Felos writes that after being told by God his powers, "....I was startled, humbled, and blessed by God's admonishment."

Felos is a whackjob who thinks he can crash airplanes with his imagination, and that God has personally spoken to him to warn him about how powerful he is! How can anyone possibly damage Felos' "reputation" as much as his own published words do??

[Bikers4Bush]

I think he was laughing about this....

"(wherein he is one of the most valued and astute members)"

[najida]

Erm,

I am actually broke.

$1.71 in my checking account as of noon today,
Been living off of spaghetti and hot chocolate for a week.
And I owe the IRS my first born alpaca.
Yard sale tomorrow...
12 hungry feral cats free with sale of old beat up truck with a dead transmission.

Have they can have at me,
One of us has to have some relief ;)

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping.

[WackyKat]

I've seen people here state plainly that Schiavo is trying to finish the murder he started 13 years ago. If I was in his shoes [and didn't do it] and I heard such a statement, I'd do everything in my power to call the person to task for it. And CP's point, I believe, is that the law would, in fact, provide a remedy.

What you said makes perfect sense, but it will have no effect on those who have become completely irrational over this case. They somehow think a keyboard is an impenetrable shield for what they say, when it is not.

[TheAngryClam]

How different is that, really, from all those people who think that after the feeding tube was reinserted and Terri Schiavo got better it was because they had prayed?

[najida]

I think he was laughing about this....

"(wherein he is one of the most valued and astute members)"
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I thought I sensed a snark there.