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Memo to Proven Liar Victoria Brownworth

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A former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader won her defamation lawsuit against a gossip website and its operator, with a jury awarding her $338,000 in damages Thursday. Jurors in federal court in Covington found that posts about Sarah Jones on the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based website thedirty.com in 2009 were substantially false. The jury of eight women and two men also found website operator Nik Richie acted with malice or reckless disregard in posting the submissions he said were anonymous. One post alleged Jones had sex with every Bengals player, and the other said she probably had two sexually transmitted diseases. Jones had argued that the posts were false and malicious and caused her severe mental anguish. Richie denied any malice and said that he didn’t write the posts and was not required to fact-check submissions before posting them. And this was just about allegations of consensual sexual activity. Imagine if there had also

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Community significance

“Memo to Proven Liar Victoria Brownworth” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about law and civil rights, with particular attention to legal analysis. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

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As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “Memo to Proven Liar Victoria Brownworth” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to legal analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“Memo to Proven Liar Victoria Brownworth” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with law and civil rights. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for legal analysis.

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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