Of course there are other considerations in a settlement, such as avoiding bad publicity -- even if you think you might win a case by arguing you made a mistake but it was not malicious. But you know that.
I expect this will be my last message in the thread. -Declan At 10:13 PM 12/11/2001 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >CNN edited interviews with people so as to make them appear >to admit to war crimes commited against civilians during the >Vietnam war, when the full transcript showed no such >admissions. Those people threatened to sue. CNN then paid >those people large sums of money in settlement of threatened >libel suits. Under America's extremely liberal libel laws, >CNN would not have done so unless those defamed had a good >case of malicious libel.
