“I mean, sure, the court documents back that ad up, but we still think it’s defamation!”
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Why don’t you sue her again then, pussy. What a lil bitch.
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According to the Times’ reporting, at least 81 one-time Marshall patients have been arrested for missing court dates stemming from their unpaid medical bills, with one patient taken into custody owing just $114.
The Times investigation also found that Marshall or his office sued more than 700 patients for unpaid bills throughout his two-decade career.
Oh well, I guess they'll have to make an advert about one of the other hundreds of people he did this to then. Not that it will sway Republican voters, for whom callousness is a feature.
Time for someone to learn about the Streisand effect....
Is it defamation if it's true?
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Let it go trail and we get discovery they will drop the lawsuit. He is scum and should be buried under a prison.
I didn't know Kansas was doing the end run around debtor's prisons as well. Utah has been doing this shit for a decade or more.
Big city firms buy distressed debt, sue in the big city where they have friendly and I presume paid off judges, and when defendants don't show up, they get contempt charges on them. If they pay they get out of jail. If not, after 30 or 60 days they get out, only for it to happen again.
Usury. A rejection of Christianity, of Christ, and a stain on your ShitHoly States! Fuck you.
Fuck this guy, but I’m down to get rid of official attack ads in general.
Of course I despise advertisements of all varieties, but political attack ads are a special type of unwelcome assault on our collective mental health.
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Defamation: Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
Slander: A false and malicious statement or report about someone
Defamation does not apply in this case, as the temporary Senator has no good reputation to be harmed. Furthermore the statements are not false, therefore there is no slander.
Defamation: Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
Defamation does not apply in this case, as the temporary Senator has no good reputation to be harmed.
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