Interesting and insightful. The Trump lawyers should give you a call.
Melania is making progress on her libel case.
I love the way the Trump network fights back, never letting a foe get an inch.
She has a very interesting case.
1st, the court allowed the case to proceed. That just means the judge did not dismiss it on motions. Not a big deal.
2s, the court will most probably hold that she is a “public person.” That means she will have to PROVE “actual malice,” that the Defs KNEW the report was false, but published it anyway, with malintent, that they were TRYING to hurt her, for profit, for example.
3, Defs will claim they only reported a fact that was true, i.e. that there was a rumor that she was an escort. Defs will claim they never said she was an escort, only that there were rumors that she was, and the need for element of truth in the defense in such a case attaches only to the existence of the rumors, not that she actually was an escort.
She will claim Defs published the rumors as fact, (and the blogger may well have,) but she will still have the public person problem from 2 above.... but the blogger will have the problem of the legal fees to lay out in advance.....
4, Too bad she couldn’t bring case in some of the European court. She could have a much better legal course there.