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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by rsynnott on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:31PM (#25931916)
Are there any recent (this century) examples of _successful_ criminal libel actions in the US? I would've thought it'd be fairly clearly unconstitutional.
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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:11PM (#25936778)
> Are there any recent (this century) examples of _successful_ criminal libel actions in the US?

This century is very young for laws that were never frequently invoked, but, yes, at least one in Kansas in 2002:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/941/criminal-li...

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