Public figure plaintiff Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

BUL 4421 Final - FAU Gendler Exam Questions With Complete Solutions CHAPTER 13: Introduction to Contracts - answerCHAPTER 13: Introduction to Contracts Four Elements of a Contract: CLAC - answer1. Contractual Capacity 2. Legal Object 3. Agreement (offer, acceptance) 4. Consideration Contract - answer-A promise or set of legally enforceable promises for the breach of which the law gives a remedy or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes a duty. Agreement - answer(Offer &...

JOMC 486 Final Exam Notes Transformative-Use Test -When a work contains significant transformative elements it is worthy of First Amendment protection and is less likely to interfere with the interests protected by right of publicity -Determining whether a work is transformative involves examining five factors No-Real-Relationship Test -Central question is whether the use of the celebrity's persona is artistically relevant to the defendant's work -If so, the use is protected, so long a...

defamation false communications about another person that damage that person's reputation or bring her into disrepute; includes the forms of slander and libel damages monetary compensation that may be recovered in court by any person who has suffered loss or injury; may be compensatory for actual loss or punitive as punishment for outrageous conduct Sedition Act of 1798 federal legislation under which anyone "opposing or resisting any law of the US, or any act of POTUS could b...

BLAW2080 Exam 3 Study Set with Complete Solutions Torts - Answer-Wrongful actions Tort law - Answer-Compensates those who have suffered injuries as a result of the wrongful conduct of others Compensatory damages - Answer-Compensate or reimburse plaintiffs for actual losses-- to make the plaintiffs whole and put them in the same position that they would have been in had the tort not occurred Special damages - Answer-Compensate plaintiff for quantifiable monetary losses General damage...

JRN 430 quiz 1-Solved absolute privilege - Correct ️️ An immunity from defamation suits attaches to government officials, protecting those officials from actions based on speech or writing made within their official capacities absolutism - Correct ️️ First Amendment, no law should be made restricting freedom of speech or a free press and no restrictions in expression acquit - Correct ️️ To find a defendant not guilty act - Correct ️️ (statutory law); used interchangeably w...

JRN 430: Media Law and Ethics Midterm Exam Questions & Answers Libel - Correct ️️ Law meant to protect an individual's reputation. It is written defamation. Slander - Correct ️️ Spoken words that damage reputation Plantiff's libel case - Correct ️️ 1. Statement of fact that is: published of and concerning the plantiff defamatory false causing damaging the defendant's fault Libel per se - Correct ️️ A statement whose injurious nature is apparent and requires no furth...

JOMC 486 Final Exam Notes Transformative-Use Test -When a work contains significant transformative elements it is worthy of First Amendment protection and is less likely to interfere with the interests protected by right of publicity -Determining whether a work is transformative involves examining five factors No-Real-Relationship Test -Central question is whether the use of the celebrity's persona is artistically relevant to the defendant's work -If so, the use is protected, so long a...

JOMC 486: Exam One first amendment congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances levels of speech/expression -pure speech -intermediate speech -unprotected speech pure speech given the highest level of protection; examples: public speech, writing a letter, publish...

Approval Rating - job performance evaluation for the President, Congress, or other public official or institution that is generated by public opinion polls and is typically reported as a percentage Confidence Interval - statistical range with a given probability that takes random error into account Conservatives - individuals who distrust government, believing that private efforts are more likely to improve people's lives. In the social sphere, they usually support traditional lifestyles a...

is most libel civil or criminal? correct answers most are civil rather than criminal libel correct answers written, generally more serious (can cause greater harm to someones reputation) slander correct answers spoken, the complaint has to prove financial loss can one sue on behalf of another for libel? correct answers no, reputation is personal and not even close relatives or business associated can sue for you what happens if a libel plaintiff dies before the suit is settled? corre...