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Originally Posted by octothorp
Yeah, and it's really laughable that he thinks he can sue anyone for things that were said to police in the course of an investigation, initially redacted in court documents, and then released to the public only after a judge ordered that the information be released because they relate to public interest. Can you imagine the precedent that would be set if you could successfully sue someone else for talking to police?
It would be a different matter if an individual went to the press with these allegations (although probably it's still defensible on public right-to-know grounds), but this information came out in exactly the way that it should: from individuals to police, to the courts, and finally to public knowledge.
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I think Ford also knows he has no ground to stand on there, but he is counting on regular Joe Blows who might have information about him, to not know that. It's a bullying tactic to scare people into not cooperating with the police.