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Reply #12: Excuse me? Cosmetic companies and logging companies have done so, right? [View All]

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Kagemusha

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Thu Nov-01-07 03:35 PM
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12. Excuse me? Cosmetic companies and logging companies have done so, right?

They call them SLAPP lawsuits, right?

Another example: there are laws in various states to ban the badmouthing of particular kinds of agricultural crops, whether or not the allegation is true. I can hardly claim to agree with these laws and lawsuits filed under them. But they exist, they have existed for considerable time, and they have not all been tossed out as unconstitutional. (Even if I might personally prefer that they were.)

My point is, you treat exposing civil liberties to civil law as if it is new and as if the US is a virgin nation never before despoiled by such a concept. I laugh at that.

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