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Making someone look foolish is not libel.
by sliverstorm 13y ago
Making someone look foolish is not libel.
- sukuriant 13y agoYes, but what about: 3. putting together a team of over 100 people, including 25 professors, to act as "spokespeople on Hayes" 5. getting paid scientists to write op-eds accusing Hayes of being a "junk scientist"
- dredmorbius 13y agoDefamation of character is tortuous: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Defamation+of+character http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Defamation+of+... Conspiracy to defame would also be tortuous, and in the context of this case, possibly criminal.
- lutusp 13y ago> Defamation of character is tortuous [sic] No, it's tortious. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortuous http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortuous : "full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortious http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortious : " having the nature of or involving a tort; wrongful."
- dredmorbius 13y agoThanks, yes.
- sliverstorm 13y agoSetting people up to make fools of themselves is not defamation though. Nor is factual spin.
- dredmorbius 13y agoSetting people up to make fools of themselves In a conspiracy, for an ulterior motive, on a large scale, you wanna argue that in front of a jury?