as far as i know, the state pursues criminal cases while a civil case generally requires paying for a prosecuting attorney. so...unlikely to be possible for th

as far as i know, the state pursues criminal cases while a civil case generally requires paying for a prosecuting attorney. so...unlikely to be possible for the average person. also, i think that in the US a defamation suit requires some sort of assessment the claim being actually true or false (as you can't defame with demonstrable truth), or at least some strong sense of merit, as well as some assessment of malice or bad-faith actions on the accuser/defamer end. not to mention that there appears to be little enthusiasm for helping falsely accused, or those claiming to be such. there are fears that aggressively pursuing false accusers risks dissuading actual victims. bad situation all around.