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  • From: "MARGARET LAUTERBACH" <melauter123@msn.com>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changingtopicfromreviewingbooks
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:58:47 -0700

You're referring to personal libel, Sheri. Truth is a defense there. But
when it comes to businesses or trade libel, all they have to show is a smear
and loss. I have a degree in journalism too, but that's no substitute for
an LL.B. or JD.

>
> I guess they could sue but printing the truth - and since it will be
> singed
> by the person posting it - is not libel. It is only libel if you cannot
> prove what you say or at least that is what my journalism background has
> taught me and this does apply in the case of a business who is at fault.
>




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