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Respond to despicable speech with more speech.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) Recently, a fellow lawyer asked me my motivation for representing libel defendants "who destroy another person's reputation and peace of mind with malice." I turned my answer into the following blog entry:  - I strongly believe that libel suits violate and are incompatible with the First Amendment. Protectiing the First Amendment always comes at a price, including the real harm caused to those who are victims of intentional lies about them. The public loses out when the First Amendment has no more teeth than toilet paper. - Too many newspapers are lands of bland, knowing that even if a libel suit is groundless, the financial exposure is too great a business risk and the cost of libel insurance is too high to cover against exposure to paying out of pocket for a substantial part of a huge libel verdict...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).