Tagged: chilling effect

“Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Thus, if the defendant’s statement is factually accurate, then the plaintiff cannot win his/her defamation lawsuit, no matter how damaging the statement might tend to be to the plaintiff’s reputation. So, when publishing an assertion of fact, make sure that it is accurate. And if you cannot be absolutely certain of the truth of your statement, then at least be sure that it cannot be falsified, since a defamation plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating that the statement was false at the time it was made.”

Although I presented a pyramid of evidence proving all of my claims against William Morris, Loeb & Loeb LLP and lead attorney Michael P. Zweig, and they never met their heightened burden of production & persuasion to refute these claims or felt that they needed to. Instead, they argued that I was “racist”/”anti-Semitic” and said that I was engaging in defamation, slander and libel against them. Although they never identified anything that I said that was untrue, Arbitrator David L. Gregory of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) awarded them $1,000 for the “damage” I’ve caused them for speaking the truth…

Source: Hajir Ardebili. “Five Tips For Tweeting Without Getting Sued for Defamation.” Corporate Counsel. February 4, 2015. http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202716861431/5-Tips-for-Tweeting-Without-Getting-Sued-for-Defamation#ixzz3Qn0IjDFR.