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To: Jim Duffett who wrote (29974)4/14/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: The Street  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 122087
 
Not quite-- to be libelous it has to be FALSE.

Of course being malicious is a whole nother matter. But it is not libel.

What law school did you attend?



To: Jim Duffett who wrote (29974)4/14/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik  Respond to of 122087
 
That would depend on whose letter you read. Oran's Dictionary of the Law, for example, spells out the qualifier that a statement must necessarily be false to be libel:

wld.com

Other law dictionaries I have seen online do not contain the adjective "false" in their definitions of "libel" and "defamation", though oddly enough one did include it in the definition of "slander".


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