{"id":218,"date":"2008-10-02T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timcurran.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-10-02T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T16:29:48","slug":"link-of-the-week-defamation-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/link-of-the-week-defamation-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Link of the Week: Defamation Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Defamation, Libel and Slander Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expertlaw.com\/library\/personal_injury\/defamation.html#4\" target=\"_blank\">This page<\/a> on the ExpertLaw website provides a handy overview of U.S. law on defamation, libel and slander. It includes short sections defining defamation, describing the legal defenses available (including most especially the &#8216;actual malice&#8217; defense relating to public figures), and an explanation of why it&#8217;s not always a good idea to file a defamation suit. The material is brief, not thorough, but accurate so far as I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page on the ExpertLaw website provides a handy overview of U.S. law on defamation, libel and slander. It includes short sections defining defamation, describing the legal defenses available (including most especially the &#8216;actual malice&#8217; defense relating to public figures), and an explanation of why it&#8217;s not always a good idea to file a defamation suit. The material is brief, not thorough, but accurate so far as I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","tag-legal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This page on the ExpertLaw website provides a handy overview of U.S. law on defamation, libel and slander. It includes short sections defining defamation, describing the legal defenses available (including most especially the &#8216;actual malice&#8217; defense relating to public figures), and an explanation of why it&#8217;s not always a good idea to file a defamation&hellip;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNBEQ-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}