Sentences with phrase «false factual statement»

«In making the statement, Mr. Trump uses his national and international audience of millions of people to make a false factual statement to denigrate and attack Ms. Clifford.»

Not exact matches

But, of course, we can not say that Christian values (or virtues) are better than, for example, Kurtz's «democratic secular humanist values» unless we believe ethical statements are factual statements and are either true or false.

If a new report truly is a false statement of fact that causes harm to someone's reputation, and if the news reporter has no actual factual basis for the factual claim, the First Amendment does permit the courts to impose both civil and criminal liability for the false statements, with civil suits brought by someone who is harmed and criminal liability enforced by the government.

After correcting the false statements, the scholars also asked the survey's respondents if they were less likely to support Trump as a result — but found the candidate's factual issues were largely irrelevant to the respondents» voting choices.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

... a breathtaking dash through personal hypocrisy, factual inaccuracy and political rhetoric... it's very hard to interpret this as a statement made in good faith... a clearer example of disinformation could not be wished for... excellent means to give a misleading impression of uncertainty... shortsighted vision and moral bankruptcy... a shameless call to narrow self - interest... Professor Curry advocates unwise policy based on false claims and bankrupt morals.

The fact that the nature of the statement is not a factual claim but a simple metaphorical opinion of the company based on it's interpretation of sales data means it technically can not be a «False» Statement.

I know «untrue factual» sounds like an oxymoron but the idea is they have to be untrue statements about things that are objectively true or false («X is a serial killer» X is either objectively a serial killer or they are not) not things which are not objectively true or false («X is not a nice person» there is no objective standard by which X's «niceness» can be measured - this is an opinion).

As Judge Teefey explained, «speech which does not contain a provably false factual connotation, or statements which can not reasonably be interpreted as stating actual facts about a person can not form the basis of common law defamation claim.»

(c) Factual error, content defamatory of official reputation, or both, are insufficient to warrant an award of damages for false statements unless «actual malice» — knowledge that statements are false or in reckless disregard of the truth — is alleged and proved.