Defamation Problems News Today

hi, everyone. its 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awar...

Politics but are you seeing the behavior that lines up a little bit, one a company that is in that business, the other a jury having such a sizable financial punishment for that kind of conduct? >> well, both of these recent suits give us a chance to take a really close look at this constitutional standard that we have in defamation and give us a chance to think about this really quite new phenomenon of attempting to use defamation law as a tool for battling sort of wider problems of wider socie...