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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

I talk about defamation law

With a bit of background for a story on Rolling Stone's UVa story (where recklessness may play a key role), and separately for a story on ALEC's somewhat surprising threats that calling it a climate denialist is defamatory.
 
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