Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This article reviews the important public policy decision that individuals should be free to protect their reputations from false and derogatory remarks. Most notably, the article explores the issues of whether a public statement that a person is gay is or should be defamatory, if it proves to be false. The author presents an overview of the problems presented to the various courts. The author then discusses the probable causes of actions and the most appropriate solution to defamation in an age of political correctness.
First Page
99
Last Page
114
Publication Date
11-1-1997
Department
Other
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Arend, Patrice S.
(1997)
"Defamation in an Age of Political Correctness: Should a False Public Statement that a Person is Gay be Defamatory?,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 18:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Suggested Citation
Patrice S. Arend, Defamation in an Age of Political Correctness: Should a False Public Statement that a Person is Gay be Defamatory?, 18 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 99 (1997).
