What Your Audience Thinks You Meant Isn’t the Test for Defamation

Horst Legal CounselAppellate Law, Business Litigation

If your business publishes anything to the public, a documentary, an article, a review, a marketing campaign, a social post, you already know the risk that someone will read an accusation into it that you never made. When that happens, the plaintiff usually points to the reaction. Look at the comments. Look at what people assumed. A new California decision …