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Old 10-26-2006, 09:58 AM
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That's probably true. I wonder how the courts would define a "public figure" in a case like this one.
The usual Wikipedia caveats apply, and then some since "public figure" is a legal term of art, but the Wikipedia article on "public figure" is a fairly good nutshell of what the term means. I'd wager that most courts would find that Cindy Sheehan is a limited purpose public figure with regard to the war in Iraq.
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