Defamation lawyer's immunity

[Litigator22]

Anyone interested in commenting on this recent pronouncement on the laws of defamation; curtsey of Rudy Giuliani (presently a New York practicing attorney.) (Some paraphrasing.)

"The First Amendment affords a lawyer total immunity from legal reprisal due to the uttering and causing to be published false defamatory statements impeaching the reputation of any person or entity; provided, that it is done in the course of vigorously defending his client."
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(Otherwise, Rudy might say that his mouth was "zip tied".)
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Trivia:
Reporter: Mr. Giuliani, have you been doing something with your hair again?
Rudy: (Visibly agitated) What do you mean something? What do you mean again?
Reporter: (Hesitantly) I don't know . . . it just seems to look better . . . in places.

 

[quincy]

Anyone interested in commenting on this recent pronouncement on the laws of defamation; curtsey of Rudy Giuliani (presently a New York practicing attorney.) (Some paraphrasing.)

"The First Amendment affords a lawyer total immunity from legal reprisal due to the uttering and causing to be published false defamatory statements impeaching the reputation of any person or entity; provided, that it is done in the course of vigorously defending his client."
_____________________________________

(Otherwise, Rudy might say that his mouth was "zip tied".)
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Trivia:
Reporter: Mr. Giuliani, have you been doing something with your hair again?
Rudy: (Visibly agitated) What do you mean something? What do you mean again?
Reporter: (Hesitantly) I don't know . . . it just seems to look better . . . in places.

My comment: It is a rubbish defense.

 

[Ohiogal]

My comment: It is a rubbish defense.

Agreed. The only time we are protected is IN COURT or in legal pleadings. Running our mouth or writing something outside a landscaping company or in the media or on social media, we are not afforded protection from defamation or slander.

 

[Ohiogal]

Anyone interested in commenting on this recent pronouncement on the laws of defamation; curtsey of Rudy Giuliani (presently a New York practicing attorney.) (Some paraphrasing.)

"The First Amendment affords a lawyer total immunity from legal reprisal due to the uttering and causing to be published false defamatory statements impeaching the reputation of any person or entity; provided, that it is done in the course of vigorously defending his client."
_____________________________________

(Otherwise, Rudy might say that his mouth was "zip tied".)
___________________________________

Trivia:
Reporter: Mr. Giuliani, have you been doing something with your hair again?
Rudy: (Visibly agitated) What do you mean something? What do you mean again?
Reporter: (Hesitantly) I don't know . . . it just seems to look better . . . in places.

Rudy has issues. And I do like the typo you made.

 

[quincy]

Giuliani says he is looking at filing a countersuit. That’ll go well.

 

[zddoodah]

Context?

 

[quincy]

Context?

The defamation suits filed by Dominion (voting system used by many states in the presidential election) are over (false) claims made by Giuliani and Sidney Powell and “the Pillow Guy” and Trump (and others) that the voting systems were rigged so that Biden would win.

No election irregularities were found to exist, and nothing was found amiss with the Dominion machines, as determined by judges (some of whom were Trump installed) and the U.S. Supreme Court, in any of the 64 cases that were filed by Trump’s attorneys.

The current $1.3bn defamation suits filed against Powell and Giuliani are not the only ones Dominion plans to file - and Dominion has not ruled out suing Trump.

Neither a First Amendment defense nor a defense claiming absolute privilege are likely to succeed. No false claims about Dominion were made in the court filings. The false claims were made in online postings, in TV interviews, in public appearances.

 

[Redemptionman1]

Yeah since when is it a good idea to have any election tabulation software in any election process in the United States especially something open to obvious manipulation and located on servers outside the USA sovereign borders? I believe in elections with valid state issued IDs held to only USA born citizens, period. Regardless of Trump and you all hatred for him. This is still America.

First and Second Amendments of the Constitutional Rights of the United States include the freedom of speech and the right to bare arms. It specifically states that neither of these rights shall be infringed upon. I realize what you all mainly want and I have my escape plan.

 

[FlyingRon]

In the words of the noted legal scholar, Vincent Gambini: Everything that man just said is bullsh-t.

 

[Just Blue]

In the words of the noted legal scholar, Vincent Gambini: Everything that man just said is bullsh-t.

 

[Zigner]

First and Second Amendments of the Constitutional Rights of the United States include the freedom of speech and the right to bare arms.

Yeah! Farmer's tans for all!

 

[Redemptionman1]

Mental disease is a real problem.....

 

[Just Blue]

Mental disease is a real problem.....

I agree. You should get help for yours.

 

[Taxing Matters]

Yeah since when is it a good idea to have any election tabulation software in any election process in the United States especially something open to obvious manipulation and located on servers outside the USA sovereign borders? I believe in elections with valid state issued IDs held to only USA born citizens, period.

So you reject technology just because there is a prospect that some software might be hacked at some point? You do realize that paper ballots are also subject to fraud too, right?

And you think only American born citizens should be allowed to vote? Naturalized citizens are every bit as much a citizen as those born here, and they have the right to vote, too. Lots of our founders would not have have been able to vote under your idea because, surprise, a lot of them were not born in what is now America, either.

 

[zddoodah]

the right to bare arms.

Damn right!