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Twitter Libel Precedent May Be Set By Courtney Love

January 15, 2014

HOLLYWOOD - AUGUST 26:  Actress Courtney Love attends the premiere of the film "Barbershop" on August 26, 2002 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

The first Twitter libel case to go to trial, featuring Courtney Love as a defendant, began this week. In 2010 Love tweeted about her former attorney Rhonda Holmes, who had declined to help bring a lawsuit against those managing the estate of Love’s late husband Kirk Cobain. In the tweet, Love accused Holmes of being “bought off.” Her defense claims the tweet was not defamatory but rather an opinion, phrased in colloquial Internet slang. The Los Angeles Superior Court judge in the case disagreed, and set the trial, which could lay down an important precedent for future Twitter libel cases.

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