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

Florida Bar Association ^ | 10/24/03 | dubyaismypresident

[theDentist]

'Course, if you are sued, your attorneys get to hold depositions with them (the clintons) and you can pursue any line of questioning you want.

AND, if you're a public figure, it's harder to prove.

Bring it on Billary!

[NeoCaveman]

Thanks for getting it.

[concerned about politics]

Cool can I post that over here.

Sure. It says right on the bottom of this page we're posting only opinions. Opinions aren't liable under this law. I think.....I feel......In my opinion.....will not hold up in court. None of these are represented as fact.

[Poohbah]

The Clintons are public personages under the Sullivan vs. New York Times Rule.

Michael Schiavo may or may not be a public personage.

There, does that clear things up for you?

[NeoCaveman]

Michael Schiavo may or may not be a public personage.

Seems like a fairly public guy now.

[lonevoice]

How about...
Kobe Bryant?
Scott Peterson?
Monica Lewinski?

Public personalities? If yes, please explain the differences between them and Michael Schiavo?

[xsmommy]

yes. there is none. : )

[T'wit]

I'm scared. I've been thinking, thinking, thinking about the lawyer George Felos, reading his words, reading his desires to kill sick and wounded people with legal hocus pocus, reading his own stories about his talks with God. I was just getting a grip on this interesting personality -- half Dr. Death, half Governor Moonbeam. He could sit on a street corner in Berkeley wearing black underwear, a purple bunny head with big floppy ears and Birkenstocks, and everybody would say nice things to him and drop coins in his cup. But now we are threatened with lawsuits and can't share our opinions and careful observations. So I won't tell you what I think of him.

[T'wit]

>> DEFAMATION -- LIBEL AND SLANDER

That was my old law firm.

[NeoCaveman]

So I won't tell you what I think of him.

LOL.

My old lawfirm was Dewey Cheatem and Howe.

[Poohbah]

Public personalities? If yes, please explain the differences between them and Michael Schiavo?

Kobe Bryant: Public personality by virtue of voluntarily playing professional basketball.

Scott Peterson: probably a private person. If he goes off to Oblivion Island after this is over (assuming he isn't convicted), then he's a private person.

Monica Lewinsky: if she had made every reasonable effort to go away, she'd be a private person, but since she hasn't, she's a public person.

Michael Schiavo: same criteria as Scott Peterson, but he isn't even indicted yet, so he's probably got a better claim to private status.

[NeoCaveman]

As you see them. You are entitled to your opinion. As is everyone else.

[lonevoice]

Scott Peterson: probably a private person. If he goes off to Oblivion Island after this is over (assuming he isn't convicted), then he's a private person.

If so, then we should see the same dire legal warnings being posted re: statements made on this forum about Scott Peterson?

Monica Lewinsky: if she had made every reasonable effort to go away, she'd be a private person, but since she hasn't, she's a public person.

Then, if it's proven that George Felos is writing a book about his involvement with Terri Schiavo, wouldn't it likewise be so that he's not "made every reasonable effort to go away"? If it's proven that Michael Schiavo is helping him to write such a book and will make profit from it too, how about his lack of every reasonable effort to go away?

[Poohbah]

Then, if it's proven that George Felos is writing a book about his involvement with Terri Schiavo, wouldn't it likewise be so that he's not "made every reasonable effort to go away"?

George Felos is not Michael Schiavo. Attorneys have a harder time claiming private personage because they're involved in the legal system on a constant and ongoing basis.

If it's proven that Michael Schiavo is helping him to write such a book and will make profit from it too, how about his lack of every reasonable effort to go away?

If, if, if.

If he isn't, then Felos is going to get very wealthy off of (a) collecting judgements from overly-passionate and underly-thinking FReepers, and (b) from writing a book about how he sued a gazillion FReepers.

[NeoCaveman]

Scott Peterson: probably a private person. If he goes off to Oblivion Island after this is over (assuming he isn't convicted), then he's a private person.
If so, then we should see the same dire legal warnings being posted re: statements made on this forum about Scott Peterson?

That would have required consistency.

[Poohbah]

If so, then we should see the same dire legal warnings being posted re: statements made on this forum about Scott Peterson?

Depends. What's being said about him?

[NeoCaveman]

Depends. What's being said about him?

That he's a murder. That's what many a poster has said.

[palmer]

I will. Felos is a murderous freak.

Or a releaser of tormented souls, depending on your point of view. My personal point of view is that he has converted his desire to kill people into a money making business.

[PokeyJoe]

Everything that I say about the former occupant of the White House, who held the title of President of the United States, is true, or reported by the press as a reasonably true public controversy.

We live in the United States.

A person can sue his neighbor because the neighbors dog only poops green poop, not black like normal dogs. (you can sue anybody for anything in this great land).

In other words, if you say what you believe to be the truth, - somebody may sue you, but they will have to pay your attorney's fees after they lose. They will also likely suffer a civil lawsuit in their vein attempt to conceal the truth.

It doesn't depend on any definition of the word "is", or any other commonly used English word used to decribe a psychopathic congenital liar (diagnosed by licensed psychiatric professionals), "democrat progressive" chinese communist sympathetic and treasous behavior, rape enabling, who displays pedophilic tendancies (48 yr old man admitted a tryst with a 20 yr old intern), impeached former President who lost his bar card in his home state, and is no longer is entrusted with attorney/client relationships.

To anybody who wants to sue me - bring it on. I could use the extra cash.

[soozla]

No...but for the life of me, why didn't the National Enquirer follow up on THIS???????

GENNIFER FLOWERS RATS OUT BILL CLINTON ON HANNITY & COLMES

I think we should FREEP the National Enquirer and ask them why they can attempt to "out" Matt Lauer and get away with it, and Rush, yet they don't go after the story behind this?????

David Kendall will probably print the emails and use them for employee T-paper!