Can you successfully call your own libelous statments "alleged"?
Someone on NextDoor.com has a serious tale of woe about her relationship
with some medical clinic, and how they mistreated her** and she starts
off the whole narrative by saying everying in it should be regarded as alleged. That works when one is repeating bad stuff someone else said,
but what about your own words.
Someone called her today and threatened her with legal action, though I
think she is poor and judgment proof. But she is scared of it, angry,
and continuing to make her allegations nonetheless.
Is a disclaimer at the start enough, or need she weaken every sentence,
or every group of sentences about one substory?
**I don't remember much, don't know how libelous it was, because I read
it several days ago. Tonight she just emphasized her discalimer. I
don't think she's talked to a lawyer, nor can she afford one, and my
guess is one would tell her to stop. Either sue or get off the pot.
I'll see if I can find the list of allegations, but today for the first
time ever, I emptied my email Trash all the way to the current day. I
knew I should not have done that. One would have had the link to the
earlier post.
On 11/29/2024 4:46 PM, micky wrote:
Can you successfully call your own libelous statments "alleged"?Not sure what she’s going for here. Every time you make an unproven statement about someone or some company, you are making an allegation.
Someone on NextDoor.com has a serious tale of woe about her
relationship with some medical clinic, and how they mistreated her**
and she starts off the whole narrative by saying everying in it should
be regarded as alleged. That works when one is repeating bad stuff
someone else said, but what about your own words.
Someone called her today and threatened her with legal action, though I
think she is poor and judgment proof. But she is scared of it, angry,
and continuing to make her allegations nonetheless.
Is a disclaimer at the start enough, or need she weaken every sentence,
or every group of sentences about one substory?
**I don't remember much, don't know how libelous it was, because I read
it several days ago. Tonight she just emphasized her discalimer. I
don't think she's talked to a lawyer, nor can she afford one, and my
guess is one would tell her to stop. Either sue or get off the pot.
I'll see if I can find the list of allegations, but today for the first
time ever, I emptied my email Trash all the way to the current day. I
knew I should not have done that. One would have had the link to the
earlier post.
Is she thinking that by admitting she is making an unproven statement
and labeling it as such that she is therefore protected from liability
if one of her statements turns out to be libelous? In other words, if
she says something like: “I am alleging that you are a sexual predator
but I have no proof” and her statement is totally false, she is somehow free from liability?
I would say circle false on that.
Can you successfully call your own libelous statments "alleged"?
On the third hand, I do not understand why doctors sue patients who
say bad things about them. Regardless of the merits of what she says,
why would I want to go to a doctor who might sue me? The sensible
response is "While we strongly disagree with what she said, we are
sorry that she was unhappy with our practice and we will try to work
out something privately."
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