Stevertigo wrote:
Sean wrote:
>Dan wrote:
>>According to the constitution of the united
states,
>>libel should be solved out of the courts simply by
>>notifying everyone of the incorrect information.
>Oh, really? Which article would that be?
The idea I think Dan is getting at is 'good
faith' - If a good faith effort
isnt made to deal with the issue.. vis a vis.. a retraction, etc... then a
judge is likely to view the issue as beneath the court.
IANAL, but this sounds correct to me.
However, such court practices would derive from case law;
I'm sure that the US Constitution says nothing directly about it.
(That said, the 1st Amendment may be seen as lending support for it,
and a court might cite the spirit of that amendment in a decision.)
So the idea is probably right,
it's just not clear-cut in the consitution's text.
-- Toby