Since Levin is an attorney, I am wondering if he would be interested in handling, pro bono, a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who associate themselves with the tea party movement and, through statements made by various liberal figures, have been libeled/slandered by them. Most people associated with the tea party movement are not “public figures” and therefore the “absence of malice” legal theory would not apply. Simply false defamatory statements would be adequate grounds for a lawsuit. Would that be possible? I'm not an attorney so I don't know, but it seems possible.
re: Since Levin is an attorney, I am wondering if he would be interested in handling, pro bono, a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who associate themselves with the tea party movement and, through statements made by various liberal figures, have been libeled/slandered by them.)))
You know, this would be interesting. Levin is a public figure and public figures have a hard time winning or even progressing in defamation suits, although I don't put Levin past winning against a sniveling, stupid worm like Matthews.
And now that CM has made a specific allegation, I'll be interested to see if Levin actually attempts a real lawsuit. It's a lot of time, misery, expense and effort to be invested on Levin's part.
Let's see him put his own money where his mouth is.