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To: Macho MAGA Man

Oh there are solutions to this... but as a gentle reader I’ll refrain from listing them.


20 posted on 08/13/2023 10:01:04 AM PDT by Skywise
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In 2017, a woman sued conservative actor, James Woods, for misidentifying her as a Nazi in an allegedly libelous tweet. The tweet included a photo not of her but of a different woman giving a Nazi salute while wearing a Donald Trump t-shirt at a campaign event.

The court ruled in favor of Woods under the “innocent construction rule.” She appealed, but the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the ruling.

The “innocent construction rule” requires courts to consider a written or oral statement in context, giving the words, and their implications, their natural and obvious meaning.

If a statement may reasonably be interpreted innocently, it cannot be actionable per se. [Republic Tobacco Co. v. N. Atl. Trading Co., 381 F.3d 717, 726-727 (7th Cir. Ill. 2004)]


99 posted on 08/15/2023 5:24:00 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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