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Opinion: Is it actionable as libel?

By POINT OF LAW By Rogelio A.Vinluan | July 12, 2005 - 12:00am

If you write that somebody is "a despicable human being" or "one of the worst elements of our society" or "incompetent" or "one of the bar’s shadier practitioners" or...

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