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You have the public figure rules backwards. Times v Sullivan provides a higher bar when the /target/ of the alleged defamation is a public figure.
by bdhess 4y ago
You have the public figure rules backwards. Times v Sullivan provides a higher bar when the /target/ of the alleged defamation is a public figure.
- dragonwriter 4y agoI didn't say anything one way or the other about the public figure rule except (1) noting that the heightened standards concerned public figures and not only public officials as had been claimed in the post I was responding to, and (2) noting, again unlike claimed previously, it wasn’t the only Constitutional restriction on defamation liability. You are correct that it is about the target, its just odd that you read something contrary to that into my comment.