Posted on 02/02/2007 7:37:16 PM PST by Khan Noonian Singh
A former Army scientist's work and his public advocacy for bioterrorism defense led to the dismissal of his libel suit charging the New York Times with publishing columns unfairly linking him to the 2001 anthrax attacks.
In a 28-page opinion released yesterday, Judge Claude Hilton of Alexandria, Va., concluded that the scientist, Steven Hatfill, was a public official and a public figure. Those findings set a high bar for Mr. Hatfill's suit, requiring him to present evidence that the author of the columns, Nicholas Kristof, knew that the columns were false or had strong reason to think they were untrue. Judge Hilton said he dismissed the case last month before trial because there was no way Mr. Hatfill could make such a showing.
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Oh, brother, you must really think you're talking to a bunch of fools or something.
This standard was invented out of judicial whole cloth in 1964 for Pete's sake, it's very much like Roe v. Wade. Congress never codifed this rubbish as a real law.
I can understand that it's probably natural for lawyers to think of Supreme Court as practically being Gods, but you might be surprised to learn that a lot of us rubes don't necessarily go along with this.
"If the law supposes that, the law is an ass".
>Oh, brother, you must really think you're talking to a bunch of fools or something.
No but since AmericaFirst and I are both hard core conservative lawyers, we do think we know what we are talking about on legal issues.
You take care of the interactive fiction you say you love, we'll take care of the legal issues.
We'll just see how the Appeals Court eventually rules. Don't gloat too much yet before it's all over.
It's sort of like Fox:
We report
You gloat.
:~)
OK, I guess we'll find out eventually, solicitor.
The docket for the Hatfill v The New York Times lawsuit shows that Dr. Hatfill has officially notified the court that he will be filing an appeal to Judge Hilton's decision.
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