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

[petro]

>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.

        Billy Clinton.
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