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Morris & Stone, LLP

The Orange County, California law firm of Morris & Stone (previously The Morris Law Firm) was formed in 1991.

The lawyers of Morris & Stone have extensive experience in virtually all phases of civil litigation in both California and Federal Courts, including numerous bench and jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, depositions, law and motion, administrative hearings and petitions for injunctive relief, with a special emphasis on First Amendment law, defamation, and anti-SLAPP.

08/22/2022

Another seemingly obvious point that sometimes gets lost in the rush to the courthouse. Defamation is not determined by the harm suffered. If defamation is proven, then the damages suffered will, of course, be highly relevant. But the defamation must first be proven before turning to the damages.

Unless the underlying statement is defamatory, the quantum of harm suffered is irrelevant. Damages do not prove defamation.

08/22/2022

What some fail to realize when posting on the internet is that truth is a DEFENSE to a defamation claim. In other words, it is the burden of the defendant to prove the truth of what they published.

In a recent case we handled, the defendant learned an expensive lesson in that regard.

First rule of defamation defense: Don’t say anything you can’t prove. I would think this concept would be so obvious and self-explanatory that it would never arise in my practice, but it comes up over and over. I see it often in the case of plastic surgeons. Plastic surgeons have a tough go of i...

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11 Orchard Road, Suite 106
Lake Forest, CA
92630

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+17149540700

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http://www.californiaslapplaw.com/, https://internetdefamationblog.com/

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