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Actual Damages
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Actual injury; can be award for such injuries as harm to reputation, humiliation and mental anguish.
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award for injuries
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slander
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a false statement, not fixed in a tangible medium, that harms a person's or an organization's repution.
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A statement that is not true
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special damages
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Awarded to libel plaintiffs to compensate them for out-of-pocket or pecuniary (ecomonic) harm.
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awarded for victims who lost money or something to do with financial problems
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trier of fact
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The peoson or people appointed to hear the evidence and determine the truth from it.
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almost like a jury
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libel per se
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in and of itself
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libel per quod
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libel by innuendo. Seemingly harmless language that is defamatory to those who know unstated extrinsic facts
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libel
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the unjust exposure of someone to public ridicule or hatred. Libel is defamation stated in a tangible medium-print, photograph, broadcast script, et cetera.
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actual malice
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publication of defamatory material w/ knowledge of its falsity or reckless disregard for the truth
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reckless disregard
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publication of defamatory nateruak w/ serious doubts as to its truth
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Burden of proof
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The duty to prove a claim in adversary proceeding. In libel actions against the media, the plaintiffs must prove the defamatory material is false, rather than media defendants having to prove it true.
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Nominal damages
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are a symbolic amount, succh as $1, recognizing that the person was defamed but that no real harm occured
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General damages
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are awarded to compensate for losses that cannot necesssarily be measured
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punitive damages
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are designed to send a message to defendants and to punish them for the libel
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