RE: FC: NY cops arrest high schoolers over web site with sex details

[Sandy Sandfort]

David Honig wrote:

> Truth is a defense in the US for
> slander.  Do these girls want
> their medical records subpeona'd?

As it is for libel, which may be the case here.  ("Slander" is spoken,
"libel" is written.)  However, I don't think the courts would allow
discovery in such a case.  Either the alleged libeler can prove his
statement ab initio or he is guilty.  If the courts allowed discovery, it
would be used as a backdoor technique to conduct fishing expeditions into
anyone's private life.


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