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The ADL has been successfully sued for defamation before. Back in 2000 the ADL lost $10.5 million for defaming a Colorado couple: https://jweekly.com/2000/05/1
by animatethrow 3y ago
The ADL has been successfully sued for defamation before. Back in 2000 the ADL lost $10.5 million for defaming a Colorado couple:
https://jweekly.com/2000/05/12/judge-fines-adl-10-5-million-in-colorado-defamation-suit/ https://jweekly.com/2000/05/12/judge-fines-adl-10-5-million-...
"On April 28 [2000], the jury found most of the charges leveled by the ADL, based on the tapes, to be 'not substantially true.'"
- mritun 3y agoThis is one of those cases where saying really shitty things is still not considered “legally” wrong. “It was just a joke” smh “ In various conversations, the Quigleys refer to attaching images of oven doors to the Aronsons' house, of burning their children and of wishing their Jewish neighbors had been blown up in a terrorist attack in Israel.”
- ambrozk 3y agoThe Quigleys may have been assholes but getting into a feud with your neighbors, wiretapping their phone, and then publicizing the contents of their conversations about you should probably be discouraged by the law.
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- Dudelander 3y agoThe facts of that case are radically different from Musk's accusations.