• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Okay.

    But the thing about defamation lawsuits is that the plaintiff (Miami PD) has to show and demonstrate that it’s in fact defamation. Mostly that comes down to lying about it and causing reputational harm.

    The defendants (or rather a team if interns owned by their lawyers,) gets to go into the the plaintiffs records to discredit those claims.

    In other words, the lawyers will get an all-access pass to Miami PD’s normally confidential files detailing extensive corruption. Because let’s be honest, there’s corruption there.

    They’ll drop it before it gets to discovery.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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      21 hours ago

      Or they will just not comply with discovery, and also demand the case be sealed. As is tradition lately.