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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Soldier of Fortune negligence upheld (was: False allegations ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.225858.25536@eff.org>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:58:58 GMT
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- In article <bdQp02gt2ftt01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
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- >Heh, heh. Braun v. Soldier of Fortune, 968 F.2d 1110, 20 Media L. Rep. 1777
- >(11th Cir., 8/13/92), affirming a jury verdict of $4,375,000, where the jury
- >found that Soldier of Fortune acted with negligence and and malice in
- >publishing a personal service advertisement through which plaintiffs'
- >father's business partner hired an assassin to kill him, in the face of,
- >inter alia, Soldier of Fortune's 1st Amendment defense.
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- It should be noted that the "malice" referred to in this summary is a term
- of art. It does not mean mean "malicious intent"--instead, it means
- something like "recklessness."
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- --Mike
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