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There is such a thing like criminal libel. The bar is high and hard to prove. Civil procedure is technically a form of prosecution. The main goal of the student
by YeBanKo 4y ago
There is such a thing like criminal libel. The bar is high and hard to prove. Civil procedure is technically a form of prosecution. The main goal of the students was a financial damage to the bakery. In fact, students action led actions by the college.
- tptacek 4y agoFind a criminal defamation statute in Ohio. I don't believe you can, but I stand ready to be surprised. Civil procedure is not technically a form of prosecution. And students can have a goal of damaging the bakery, but to be liable for defamation, they have to: (1) individually succeed in causing countable damage to Gibson's, and (2) do so by circulating false statements of fact --- for instance, you cannot sue someone for defamation simply for pointing out something somebody else said: "I read in this flyer that Gibson's assaulted a student" is not defamation, even if the flyer is. People have a lot of weird ideas about what happened here. The court filings are on the Internet; you can just go read them.