they don’t give a shit about lawsuits, that’s YOUR tax dollars.
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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I hope Kenvue (which used to be the consumer healthcare division of Johnson & Johnson) brings down an army of lawyers on these chucklefucks for the bullshit they’re spewing. Hardest part would be proving that said chucklefucks knew their claims were false though since it’s plausible that they really are this stupid.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Is stupidity a defense?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m just a simple country hyper-chicken so don’t take this to court just bec-buck-buck-bc-GAAWK!
Excuse me.
… because I said so. Stupidity may be a defense if the standard being applied requires knowledge that the statements in question are likely to cause damage to another. If those statements are true, no problem, that’s a complete defense. If they’re not, the lawyers get to duke it out in court.
Most often, that won’t come into play though since a lot of states assume that the person making the false statements does so with the requisite guilty state of mind. It’s not universal though which is why the non-stick dick might get away with this too.
I’m using www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation as a reference, any errors in interpretation are my own.