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Damages Do Not Prove Defamation

Published July 7, 2022 | By Aaron Morris

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Damages do not prove defamation.

A quick but very important aspect of defamation law.

If someone defames you, and that defamation results in a gazillion dollars in damages, then of course those damages will be highly relevant to the action.

But if someone says something about you that is not defamatory, and you suffer the same gazillion in damages, then those damages are irrelevant to any defamation analysis.

This seems self-evident, but I find myself in this conversation on a regular basis (with varying fact patterns): Continue reading →

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