Re: Reply from Inan at Healey Surgeons

[John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>]

tom felts wrote:
 > Any lawyers here-------? Seems to me the list may have the possibllity of
> getting a slander suit.

Not a lawyer, but an ex-journalist.  The transgression you're thinking
of would be libel, because it's written (slander is spoken).

In general, the absolute defense against an accusation of libel is that
what was written can be proven to be true.

-- 
John Miller
http://cll.emory.edu/instructor.cfm?ins=873807244