Sentences with phrase «committed libel»

The gist of her suit was that the Post, by quoting a MySpace page in which Cordero «gives a graphic depiction of a masturbatory fantasy» in which she has sex with multiple men and women, implied she was a «promiscuous slut» and therefore committed libel per se.

If you publish something false about a person or entity that could damage their reputation, you've committed libel and could be in big trouble.

@Mike — Given your lack of understanding re blogging ethics, I don't expect you to get this but you just committed libel.

He also appeared to imply that Ponder is committing libel — though that would require that Ponder's accusations be false; Portnoy did not deny writing the blog post.

Two reasons that I can see: he does not admit to committing libel and if the apology works, and Heartland accepts it without court action and all that that entails (discovery, forensic analysis of his computer hard drives, email accounts, Pacific Institute equipment, etc., etc.), then the misdirection would be successful.

Did Imus commit libel?

On the flip side, suppose I report «Mr. Caswell is the Creeper and Bank Robber», prior to Caswell receiving a guilty verdict in a court of law, I am committing libel.

Not exact matches

The author, who served as a member of the British Parliament and once ran for mayor of London, was convicted in 2001 of committing perjury during a 1987 libel trial.

A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

To commit citizens of Ghana to jail on account of what they have said at a time when democratic societies are moving away from such a practice would appear to roll back all the gains made since the repeal of the criminal libel law.

However he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for committing perjury during the libel case, of which he served seven months before his release in January 2000.

Leo Casey, Vice President of the AFT's New York City affiliate, accused Brown - along with Howard Wolfson of Mayor Bloomberg's office and Micah Lasher of StudentsFirstNY - of committing «blood libel» for their critiques of the AFT's handling of teacher misconduct.

Casey would go on the next year to accuse news anchor - turned - teacher quality reform activist Campbell Brown (along with several other reformers) of committing «the equivalent of a blood libel» against teachers for daring to expose the complicity of the AFT's Big Apple local (and that of the national union) in keeping criminally abusive teachers on the city's payroll.

And if any of you are still brainwashed into thinking it unfair to unmask her in this manner, and still believe wrongly that what she does to people isn't unfair and over the line, then consider that firstly, everything in this thread goes to the constant pattern of libel, lying, distortions being committed by this woman Victoria Strauss, but not her main income or career.

They defined press offenses as the use of the press to commit: (1) crimes against the government and the King, (2) acts inciting to crime, (3) crimes and misdemeanors against public morals, and (4) diffamation or criminal libel.

Rep. Raul Grijalva is committing slander, libel and publicly attacking the foundations of the scientific method.

Also still listed as offences: abortion, duelling, making and selling comic books that show crimes being committed, advertising Viagra, blasphemous libel and pretending to practise witchcraft.

Intentional wrongdoing such as committing fraud, mishandling a client's money / breach of fiduciary duty, libeling a client or violating someone's civil rights

The lawyers at Gilbertson Davis have experience in defamation proceedings, in respect of defamation alleged to have been committed in writing (libel) or orally (slander).

In other words, it's fine to punish a person, post-facto, for committing an act of slander or libel; however, trying to hush someone — before anything untoward actually happens — is contrary to established legal standards (except in certain circumstances, which usually involve commerce and employment).

Can you say or publish something without fear of committing slander or libel?