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What are the rules about defamation when information is accidentally released?
To all except your last question: yes
Defamation is easy: it is the making of untrue (or literally true but contextually misleading), reputation-damaging statements by one party about a second party ...
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What is the "important thing" that can make a true statement defamatory wrt the X/Media Matters lawsuit?
canada (with some comparisons to united-states)
Terminology
First, whether a statement is defamatory is separate from whether it is true or false. In Canada, for example, a statement is defamatory as ...
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What is the "important thing" that can make a true statement defamatory wrt the X/Media Matters lawsuit?
united-states
That what was said is not "substantially true"
A crisp formulation of the doctrine states that a publication is substantially true if (a) it is factually similar to the ...
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Has any acquitted defendant ever lost a defamation case, accused of committing the crime?
This will depend on what Trevor is actually saying to people when telling them that Craig committed the crime.
Scenario A. If Trevor is saying that "Craig was convicted," or "Craig is ...
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