Posted on 11/02/2022 7:59:51 PM PDT by RandFan
Judge Andrew Napolitano joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the growing spy state, the midterm elections, and how the Sandy Hook ruling against Alex will be overturned.
(Excerpt) Read more at banned.video ...
Very technically you are right but the law usually considers personal statements to be opinion if if you present them as your version of facts. So if I say it’s an absolute Fact that you lied in your comment that’s still just an opinion and defamation won’t lie.
Unfortunately, I have a client who’s an attorney and when I asked them a similar question, they disagreed with your interpretation. I am not a lawyer, but they certainly are, and they told me that he should have made it more clear than he did.
I saw that quote as well and spoke to an attorney client of mine. Their opinion was that “in my view” was not nearly enough of a disclaimer.
Conjecture is not actionable and it would take an idiot not to understand that.
That’s the trouble. He didn’t conjecture it.
He didn’t say something like, “I wonder if any of the parents were involved in this hoax?”
He outrightly said that the parents were participating in a hoax knowingly.
Yep exactly. This is exactly the kind of ridiculous damage award that got SCOTUS to intervene in NY Times vs Sullivan when the courts were being used in the 60s to try to crush the NY Times for publishing opinions some did not like.
The “trials” were a complete farce. Laughably biased judges denied Alex Jones his right to a fair trial. Juries awarded damages that were out of all proportion to any supposed harm actually caused. To wit: the damage award was thousands of times higher than any previous damage award for a similar case. Also, plaintiff’s attorneys and jurors made it clear their damage award was not really about harms supposedly caused. It was about attempting to silence Alex Jones.
Obviously SCOTUS cannot allow that lest it be used again and again and again to silence dissident voices and infringe on the right to free speech. Its just sad some conservatives have been bamboozled by the corporate media’s lies wrt Alex Jones.
And yet we now live in the crazy dystopia that he envisioned for the past 20 years.
I look forward to the “bazillion dollar” judgments to come against leftists if Jones loses his appeal and judicial lunacy is allowed to reign.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
He, unfortunately, went one step to far and implicated parents as being part of the hoax.
**********
Only a politicized jury of idiots could believe that the parents suffered any compensible harm from what Jones said. Jones got most of the country laughing at him.
The fact that he can make accurate predictions occasionally does not make him any less a moron and a jerk.
Lawyers always disagree. It’s a part of our occupation.
I don’t care for jones but I fail to see how his opinion of what may or may not have happened is anything more than his opinion. No reasonable person would assume that it was anything else but his opinion. I think Napolitano is right, the case will probably get reversed.
And deserving of a $1 billion judgement? Why not a trillion? Why not a zillion?
I guess you didn’t read the second sentence of my post.
He didn’t conjecture, at least once. That’s the problem. If he had done so, there would have been no basis for a lawsuit.
In the Heinlein novel, "The Number of the Beast", the crew of the time and n-dimensional alternate continuum ship, Gay Deceiver, settled briefly in the parallel universe they called Beulahland. It was pastoral, libertarian, and mostly very dull. The history was slightly different from the crew's homeworld: There was no slavery, but much indenture; and sometime in the 16th century the oceans had risen considerably, changing the coastlines and much of the political situation. *nbsp; It took them a while to figure out that what had made a difference in the time stream was a momentous event in 1965, the "Year They Hanged the Lawyers." It is never mentioned in the history books, and information about it is restricted.I'm sure you have heard the joke about lawyers at the bottom of the ocean. "That's no joke, man"
That’s good. I like that.
I like his Bad Luck quote
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Yeah that is where he slandered. Alex Jones’s own worst enemy is his own big mouth.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.