A Jesse James Train Robbery and the Three-Strikes Law
Bloomberg Law
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The Standard in a Defamation Claim
When a public figure sues a media organization for falsehoods about that public figure, the supreme court has said that the person complaining that they were defamed has to show that the news organization was or the speaker was. So here, at the a ing machine companies had to prove that the speakers were reckless. That's what you've got to prove in a defamation claim brought by a public figure. We saw in the sarah palan trial that the jury did not find for heron using that standard.
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