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The court said actual malice required acting with knowledge that a statement was "false or with a reckless disregard of whether it was false or not".
The court held that any public figure suing for libel must prove that a defamatory statement was made with actual malice, "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not".
Public officials, the court said, could win damages only if they showed a libelous statement had been made "with actual malice, that is, with knowledge that it was false, or reckless disregard of whether it was false or not".
Public officials, the court wrote, could win damages only by showing a libelous statement had been made with knowledge that it was false, or reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.
Brennan wrote that a public official (and this was later broadened to include public figures in general) cannot recover "damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with 'actual malice' — that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not".
In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court required that any public official who sues for damages because of an alleged falsehood prove that the falsehood had been issued with knowledge that it was false or in reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.
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A related question is whether the disregard of heavy burdens imposed on socially disadvantaged patients is justified by similar power structures, or whether there is simply inadequate moral involvement.
At present, it is unknown as to whether non-compliance is due to willful disregard of the mandates, reflects a lack of resources with which to be compliant or other factors.
Corkonians have always stood in opposition to external rule (whether it be from London or Dublin) and retained a healthy disregard of authority.
Disregard of others.
Does this disregard of evidence led Beck to disregard evidence in other areas?
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