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DEFAMATION -- LIBEL AND SLANDER [Florida Law - FReepers Heed]
Florida Bar Association ^
Posted on 10/24/2003 10:14:40 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
Edited on 10/24/2003 12:02:17 PM PDT by Lead Moderator.
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To: honeygrl
lol all these posts and you were able to pick out the single one with your name in it. I am impressed. :)Heh, nah. Just random dumb luck. In threads this big, I just bounce around in them skimming 50-post chunks trying to find a section Where It All Makes Sense.
I'm still looking. :)
To: honeygrl
GOT IT!?
1,502
posted on
10/24/2003 10:17:03 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Hey!, I wonder whats in this cave?! Lets check it ou... YAAAAA...chomp chomp... BUUURRRPPP.)
To: TheAngryClam
Now can we make 2000 before sunrise?
I'll try... I want Terri to...
oh never mind...
To: TheAngryClam
DOH!
1,504
posted on
10/24/2003 10:17:51 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Hey!, I wonder whats in this cave?! Lets check it ou... YAAAAA...chomp chomp... BUUURRRPPP.)
To: Indy Pendance
I agree with you, FR has become a war zone lately, only the enemy has switched from who it should be, LETISTS, to each other in thread after thread. What is going on here anyway guys and gals?
1,505
posted on
10/24/2003 10:18:00 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(Talk about a revolution, look at California!!! We dumped Davis!!!)
To: TheAngryClam
First up: President Bush's prescription drugs plan.Is it not a sad day when we have to root for the Democrats to filibuster one our President's big proposals?
To: Cultural Jihad
Specious blather.
1,507
posted on
10/24/2003 10:24:54 PM PDT
by
tpaine
(I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but Arnie won, & politics as usual lost. Yo!)
To: ladyinred
Ask palpatine.
1,508
posted on
10/24/2003 10:27:40 PM PDT
by
tpaine
(I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but Arnie won, & politics as usual lost. Yo!)
To: Porterville
Boy, how your town has grown! ;-)
To: Timesink
You won't find any sense here.
1,510
posted on
10/24/2003 10:33:07 PM PDT
by
honeygrl
(All of the above is JUST MY OPINION)
To: bvw
CP was fear-mongering Then just ignore the thread and keep on with what you were doing.
To: Texasforever
This thread is too much fun to ignore. I demand everyone pay attention to it!!! :)
1,512
posted on
10/24/2003 10:45:30 PM PDT
by
honeygrl
(All of the above is JUST MY OPINION)
To: ambrose
I know. I shake my head every time thinking that the alternative Republican (McCain) was worse, and that I'll be voting for Bush in 2004 (just because it will piss off the left).
I'm so sick of voting for candidates because they're slightly less bad than the alternatives. That's why it felt so good to vote for McClintock- I finally got to vote for someone I was proud of.
1,513
posted on
10/24/2003 10:49:50 PM PDT
by
TheAngryClam
(Don't blame me, I voted for McClintock.)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Need I mention that all that legislative mail and the legislative and executive email servers will be available in the discovery process? Thus any of those communications that make reckless and wild allegations will also be thrown into the mix. That's political speech.
To: honeygrl
Yep.. I'd love to see them sue him and then him be allowed to have access to Terri's medical records to prove his claim. Well he may yet. If he gets the new law overturned and once Terrie is dead he may sue them based on the fact that his "good name" has been ruined. From everything I have read the new law will more than likely be declared unconstitutional whether we like it or not. Once that happens he would appear to have a pretty strong case and the ACLU would encourage such suits just to keep any future families, groups or individuals from being too outspoken in the future. You don't have to have judgments levied against you to be financially ruined. Also for those Texas freepers that feel they are "judgment proof"...don't count on it. Your home is only protected while you own it. If you sell it that money becomes attachable.
To: TheAngryClam
You've been a delight right from the get go this morning and you're still going strong. I've learned so much and hope I can retain half, well, maybe a quarter of the information. :)
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posted on
10/24/2003 11:07:17 PM PDT
by
onyx
To: ambrose
Besides your ping(s) I have received 4 mails insisting I read your #1405, each mail promising me I would ROF and LMAO!
That post is a keeper. LOL.
1,517
posted on
10/24/2003 11:10:19 PM PDT
by
onyx
To: Poohbah
No, it says that OPINIONS posted are not those of the management. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the statement again. Nevermind, I'll post it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management......blah, blah blah.
Granted, that statement doesn't give posters blanket immunity from libel lawsuits, but it is worded a tad stronger than the fragmented excerpt you quoted and could possibly resonate well with a jury basically sympathetic to free speech.
Schiavo might possibly be sufficiently vindictive to file a couple of harrassing lawsuits against the most vituperative FReepers if he can find a law firm willing to risk representing him on a contingency basis in such a long shot suit, but I seriously doubt anyone is in peril of losing a home or livilihood over this minor tempest in an internet teapot.
I predict with a fair amount of confidence that common sense will prevail on both sides of the controversy, and if not, on the part of the courts. This is after all only an internet political forum, and these sites are well known for almost comical outburts of temporary emotional excess which are only taken seriously by those unfamiliar with the genre. It's not like someone bought a quarter page in the NY Times to make unfounded accusations. As for my opinion of my own vulnerability to litigation, I can only say I expect to sleep the unworried sleep of a guileless infant tonight.
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posted on
10/24/2003 11:14:30 PM PDT
by
epow
To: Poohbah
I would suspect the definition would apply only to an individual that made himself a "public" persona. I don't think it would apply to someone dragged into the spotlight by circumstances.
To: epow
if he can find a law firm willing to risk representing him on a contingency basis in such a long shot suit, That is exactly what the ACLU does. Now, I saw a lot of freepers wanting to sue the town council that labeled FR a hate site. IN FACT, they are being sued. Now, if you take that and put the Terrie threads and some of the comments made on them in the context of that suit, how would the lawyers for the city council use those comments in their defense?
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