Actually you can sue someone for lying about you if it is false and if it damages you. That is the very definition of libel -- making false statements about someone that the accuser knows will be damaging.
If Grim did wait to correct the record, and indeed was the one who actually broke the story of the claims being false, then I don't se…
Actually you can sue someone for lying about you if it is false and if it damages you. That is the very definition of libel -- making false statements about someone that the accuser knows will be damaging.
If Grim did wait to correct the record, and indeed was the one who actually broke the story of the claims being false, then I don't see what your complaint is except that he failed to do so in what you consider to be a timely manner.
No, the law is a lot more complicated than that especially if someone is a candidate for office, and it is a private citizen. I kinda have a degree in this subject. It might be wrong, but you won’t win in court—as was proven. And the complaint is that Grim never should have let that story come out in the first place. Again this is ethics. The law…different story.
If this were a white man, they would not have run it at all. That is the point. He did one good thing in admitting it was wrong. But the damage was already out there. It was too little too late. It is not breaking a law but it is racism.
Not to mention Croydon has been doing this for years. It was not really an issue until press picked it up. That was the damaging point. Her lying on line was not doing any real damage. She had no following or platform which also would have affected a lawsuit.
Actually you can sue someone for lying about you if it is false and if it damages you. That is the very definition of libel -- making false statements about someone that the accuser knows will be damaging.
If Grim did wait to correct the record, and indeed was the one who actually broke the story of the claims being false, then I don't see what your complaint is except that he failed to do so in what you consider to be a timely manner.
No, the law is a lot more complicated than that especially if someone is a candidate for office, and it is a private citizen. I kinda have a degree in this subject. It might be wrong, but you won’t win in court—as was proven. And the complaint is that Grim never should have let that story come out in the first place. Again this is ethics. The law…different story.
If this were a white man, they would not have run it at all. That is the point. He did one good thing in admitting it was wrong. But the damage was already out there. It was too little too late. It is not breaking a law but it is racism.
Not to mention Croydon has been doing this for years. It was not really an issue until press picked it up. That was the damaging point. Her lying on line was not doing any real damage. She had no following or platform which also would have affected a lawsuit.