Libel Law and ADR in Minnesota - Dispute Resolution Journal - Vol. 49, No. 2

Author(s):

Dennis Hale

Page Count:

5 pages

Published:

May, 1994

Jurisdictions:

United States,

Minnesota

Practice Areas:

ADR

Author Detail:

The author is a journalism professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a former newspaper reporter. Robert 0. Scott, a Ph.D. student, coded the court cases for this study.

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Originally from Dispute Resolution Journal

Libel law continues to plague the news media and baffle the legal experts. In 1971 the eminent authority on tort law, William Prosser, observed that defamation law "makes no sense. It contains anomalies and absurdities for which no legal writer ever has had a kind word."1