MESS WITH THE BEST, DIE LIKE THE REST: James Woods, who wields a 50. cal Twitter feed like it’s nobody’s business wins his libel suit:
Portia Boulger alleged that Woods defamed her by tweeting out a post that falsely claimed she was a Bernie Sanders supporter who was planted at a March 2016 Trump campaign rally in Chicago and photographed giving a Nazi salute…On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge George Smith threw out the case, finding that Woods had not defamed Boulger because his post could be seen as posing a question about her identity and was “susceptible of more than one interpretation.”
Ohio law has the “innocent construction rule” in libel cases, wherein if a word is capable of multiple meanings, it isn’t defamatory per se. The court also went on to explain that questions are not statements of fact.