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Put whatever qualifiers you want on it. A rapist is a rapist. It's a factual statement and, therefore, is not slander or libelous.
Doesn't stop them from filling lawsuits, no matter how frivolous
It also doesn't stop the judge from assigning payment of both parties legal fees to the losing side. A common practice for those kinds of friviolous cases.
Getting legal fees paid isn't always possible, and is very different in various jurisdictions.
I was once sued in revenge by a supplier I'd dropped. We knew I'd win the case (they were hoping I'd settle), but I was pissed about how much it would cost me, even if I won.
It turned out that we had to motion for legal fees by a certain date. So my lawyer waited until about an hour before the courthouse closed on that day, and filed the motion without giving them a chance to react reciprocally. So they'd have to pay my legal fees, but I wouldn't have to pay theirs.
They lost badly, as predicted, and paid my lawyer for their hubris. No compensation for two years of worry and lost sleep, though.
Sure, but it's less about the money than it is about the act itself, the ultra wealthy can just throw money at lawyers to waste other people's time, and wear them down, despite whatever outcome they still get what they want really
Yep. This is because most people don't vote in ways that would facilitate enacting legislation to correct that problem.
Our system of checks and balances only works when we work it. Every time somebody throws up their hands and gives up because of some perceived roadblock, that is what preserves these systemic abuses. To rid ourselves of the abuses requires a public with the desire to actually participate in their own government more often than one day every fourth November.
A fucking men