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Not really -- defamation is extremely hard to win the US, and has to be both demonstrably false and reckless. The fact that he hired a pro investigator (or at
by gbronner 7y ago
Not really -- defamation is extremely hard to win the US, and has to be both demonstrably false and reckless.
The fact that he hired a pro investigator (or at least one who professionally held himself out as one) kind of makes 'reckless' hard to prove.
- davesque 7y agoMy comment wasn't about that. I was saying that, if the case did in fact hinge on what Musk meant by calling Unsworth "pedo guy", then it should have been a slam dunk in Unworth's favor. So then, by the contrapositive and crap, we should assume in a logical universe that the case didn't hinge on the meaning of the term "pedo guy."
- cookie_monsta 7y agoDidn't he hire the investigator after making the claim? That would make it him trying to cover his ass after making an unfounded assertion, which fits pretty well into the reckless category. What the investigator found (nothing in this case) is immaterial. The law should protect people from being defamed on a hunch that may or may not later turn out to be true.