On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:12:10PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > There are already libel and slander laws to prevent damaging a > person's reputation through falsehoods.
In the U.K., truth is not a defense to libel. It's my understanding that it *is* a defense in the U.S. So, when an American sues for libel in the U.K., it's a smoking gun that the "libellous" statements are in fact true. -- G. Branden Robinson | Don't use nuclear weapons to Debian GNU/Linux | troubleshoot faults. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- US Air Force Instruction 91-111 http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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