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Elon Musk Needs to Sue Everybody

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Posted By: Imright, 1/23/2025 12:47:42 AM

Back in the dark times when I actively practiced law – I gave up my partnership on December 31st after 30 years of litigating on behalf of everybody from individuals to Fortune 500 companies – one of the things I spent a lot of my time on was counterintuitive. I spent a lot of time telling people they didn’t have a good lawsuit and shouldn’t bring one because they were going to lose or at least not gain enough to make the litigation nightmare worth living through. After doing that job, you can look at a case and have a pretty good idea of where it will end up.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 1/23/2025 1:22:09 AM (No. 1879693)
FTA, by Mr. Schlichter, an experienced attorney who has done a lot of lawsuits. "You know they’re lying, and they simply don’t care. So, they must be forced to care. And the way you force them to care is by taking millions and millions of dollars." Musk should make them care about their vile lies against him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: caljeepgirl 1/23/2025 3:40:01 AM (No. 1879708)
Besides, he can use the money. :-)
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Reply 3 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/23/2025 4:50:13 AM (No. 1879714)
Sue! Sue! Sue! I wouldn't even ask for money. I would demand a public apology repeated every night for a week on the evening news saying, "We knowingly, deliberately, for political purposes, and with clear bias, lied about Elon Musk being a Nazi and embracing Nazism. This grossly libeled and defamed Mr. Musk. We apologize to Mr. Musk and apologize to our viewers for using our broadcast license to carry out a BIASED political assault on an innocent party." The networks use repeated attacks to drive their points home. That deserves repeated apologies. A week of crow on the menu should be quite nice for them. I would even suggest that the people that delivered the attacks should be the ones forced to apologize. The settlement should also preclude anyone on a network from denying their guilt as it would be an extension of the original libel, which would have been settled in a court of law as libelous. Any further opinions by anyone broadcasting on the network would violate the settlement with a YUGE financial penalty and would be grounds for termination of the employees involved. i.e. Network, Stifle yourselves! Note that Trump didn't go after them for money, mostly because he couldn't. Instead he hit them in a much more important area, their credibility and their truthfulness. "Fake News" destroyed them. However, they continue to lie. Such a settlement would force them to proclaim the unadulterated truth on their own programming which they perverted to do the libel. THAT would be justice. It would also force them to not allow the typical alternative storylines that they use, even when caught out. The "Yes, we were wrong, but we had good reason to think this, and Trump is a Hitler anyway." approach.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: vhs68 1/23/2025 9:45:17 AM (No. 1879872)
Thanks #3. This should move right to the top for 'Post of the Day'.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Hazymac 1/23/2025 10:48:47 AM (No. 1879931)
Now might be a good time to review the 1964 Warren Court decision New York Times v. Sullivan, which made it nearly impossible for a public figure to sue for defamation absent proof of actual malice. Legally, since 1964, that's a very high bar to clear. What if one of the litigants adheres to a personal and political philosophy that is malicious by its very nature? The Left attacks their political enemies with gleeful abandon, certain that they will never have to pay. Well, clean them up by making them pay out everything to those they have dishonestly and maliciously defamed. Shutter their bureaus.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: padiva 1/23/2025 11:56:54 AM (No. 1879986)
Make them pay and pay and pay. Charity can always use the money. Maybe a few scholarships to an honest journalism school.
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