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[Bird of Prey]

Which brings me to a question of my own for any legal types: If someone makes a reputation-harming untrue statement about you in writing, and prefaces it with "I hear" or "In my opinion" or "I think" or any other such qualifier, is it likely to make it less libelous?

While am not an attorney (nor do I play one on TV) I do try to keep up with the status of this particular issue.
The Key point is can you show Damages. Example: If as a result of the message being posted about Bob, he were to suffer some kind of injury (fired, stalked and beaten up, shot, stabbed, etc.) then regardless of the IMO, he could likely bring a case to court. Winning it would be another matter.

David Weed
aka the Bird of Prey
www.warp-drive.com