Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.
As you read the discussion of Gertz v. Robert Welch in this chapter, you should have noticed that the decision left it up to the individual states to define appropriate levels of fault—negligence—when libel suits are brought by private persons involved in events of general or public interest. Nearly all of the states have since defined negligence. Is your state one of them? What is the standard?
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