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Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business
(www.nytimes.com)
Why it's a newspaper's problem if he's a hateful moron. Imagine calling a child a faggot, even personally. It's so wrong and sad. For a child, for a reporter, and for he is the one to play victim and charge them.
Can't SLAAP be applied here? This sound like something that should qualify, to me, but not a lawyer and probably pretty ignorant.
SLAPP isn't a law, it's a way to describe abuse of the system that's mostly legal as long as it doesn't reach the point of frivolity.
Thanks, that's a useful distinction. But I'm still curious why it wouldn't apply here? The paper can clearly show that it reported in good-faith, so why isn't it possible to countersue the politician who clearly is trying to harm them via the courts? I would think this would allow them to pursue financial relief for their legal troubles. I must be missing something fundamental about what SLAAP can and cannot provide.
That’s not how the law works. You need to tell us why an anti-SLAAP action (which Wisconsin does not have as a cause of action) would apply here.
Ok, so Wisconsin not having these rules is a factor. Thanks!
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