"but honestly you’re the worst offender here."
"For a public figure like Dershowitz to prevail, defamation law has long required proof of a speaker's actual malice: knowledge of or reckless disregard for the falsity of a statement. But here, the available evidence points to the reporters’ sincere—if mistaken or even overwrought—belief in the truth of their accusations."
"Miss Manners has much to commend her within a polite and respectful society, but we are not her enforcement division."
What's on your mind? (Other than the thread was late, sorry about that.)
"[Indiana's] approach furthers the state's interests the way an atom bomb would further the eradication of a residential ant infestation."
So a federal judge just held.
No, says, a District Court judge.
It also rejects Hunter Biden's invasion-of-privacy counterclaim, on statute of limitations grounds.
And this is so even though the order targets flag desecration that could be punished under more neutral rules.
"Disputes between a high school coach and an athlete's parent are common, but most of those disputes do not lead to multiple internal investigations, a police report, and a federal lawsuit. This one did."
The court also rejected defendants' "necessity" defense.
Was the father a consul or an attaché? It is on such matters that the law sometimes turns.
defendant "was found guilty of criminal mischief and domestic violence"—yet the prosecution "presented no evidence that [she] damaged or destroyed the property of another—an essential element of criminal mischief, which was also the predicate offense for the domestic violence charge."
So a Magistrate Judge concludes in recommending a default judgment in favor of the inmate.
"After the lawsuit was filed, Desbordes' [Druski's] counsel sent Plaintiffs' counsel evidence, including debit card records and phone records, showing that it was virtually certain that Desbordes was in Georgia at the time of the alleged rape, and thus could not have participated in the assault." "Yet, at the hearing on the motion for sanctions, Plaintiffs' counsel expressly stated Plaintiffs 'have no desire to dismiss Mr. Desbordes' from the lawsuit."
