From: Stan Brown 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house misc.legal
Subject: Re: Liben, Leben, Loben and slander (Re: insurance question)
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:08:11 -0400
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Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:48:39 -0600 from ¥ UltraMan ¥ :
> Stan Brown wrote:
> > Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:57:36 -0400 from mm :
> >> They also often insure you for libel and slander, which are somewhat
> >> intentinoal, and I was hoping they would have a practical manual to
> >> go with that so I could avoid committing libel.
> >
> > In the US, truth is an absolute defense against an action for
> > defamation (libel or slander). If you confine yourself to facts, then
> > as a matter of law you have not committed libel or slander.
> 
> Nope:
> 
> Colorado's criminal libel statute provides:

And the relevance of that to getting *sued* for libel, which is what 
everyone else was discussing, would be .... ?

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