Posted by Lou Pilder on August 19, 2003, at 19:56:01
In reply to A short introduction on defamation-QD, posted by Lou Pilder on August 19, 2003, at 19:17:37
Friends,
Another type of defamation is by innuendo, although some jurisdictions make this hard to prove, but not impossible.
Innuendo results when the person's name is not written, but it could be proven that a particular person was the person in the defamatory statement.
An example was in my state where a parent wrote into a newspaper that "a certain teacher was seeing his female students for sex at such and such a place". The inclusion of the location was proven to be where a teacher worked after school as a consultant for a business and was frequently seen at the establishment and the teacher sued and won a $20,000 judgement from the parent for defamation because of the inuendo and she did not identify the teacher in the article. Now if she had identified the teacher, then there would have been no inuendo, but then the teacher would have prevailed because the statement was false and damaged his reputation. In court, she produced no female students to claim that they had sex with the teacher. I have changed some facts about this case to protect the teacher.
Lou
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