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Jesse Ventura wins $1.8 million in "American Sniper" defamation case


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Let's see if it holds up on appeal (it's really hard for a public figure to sue someone in US court for libel; it takes an extremely high standard of "actual malice" to matter); but because libel in the US provides so many protections for talking about public figures, if it does hold up, I'd tend to believe it probably was libel.

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The guy is a piece of trash, taking money from the family of a deceased hero after the event in question happened nearly 8 years ago. Not to mention he was sued for "slandering", tarnishing the reputation of Jesse by including the bar fight in his book, which after this lawsuit everyone thinks he's a piece of trash anyway, kind of ironic. 

 

But I am sure karma will catch up with this schmuck

 

Afterall, karma is a bitch 

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In my opinion, she got what was coming to her. Whether you love or hate Ventura, the court has proven that she and her fallen husband had lied about the entire incident in an attempt to defame Jesse Ventura (they got their e-mails). So imagine if you were in his position, someone completely made up a story about you, and because of that your own family members and friends begin hating you.... I'd sue her too.

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The guy is a piece of trash, taking money from the family of a deceased hero after the event in question happened nearly 8 years ago. Not to mention he was sued for "slandering", tarnishing the reputation of Jesse by including the bar fight in his book, which after this lawsuit everyone thinks he's a piece of trash anyway, kind of ironic. 

 

But I am sure karma will catch up with this schmuck

 

Afterall, karma is a bitch

He sued for libel, not slander, and the book was published in 2012 (so there's no way a lawsuit would possibly have started before then". Furthermore, the claim wasn't "he hurt my reputation by talking about this thing that happened" (truth is an absolute bar to any claim of defamation); the claim was "he made this story up in order to hurt my reputation", which is much more serious. Libel claims start with "this didn't happen, the person I'm suing said something false". Public figure libel suits start instead with "the person I'm suing lied, saying this as fact even though they actually knew it was substantially false or at least thought there was a good chance it was substantially false".

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