Did you know that Liskula Cohen is a skank?
August 18, 2009 – 7:18 pm
Not only didn’t I know she might be considered a “skank”, I had never even heard of her. However, because of a short-sighted lawsuit to uncover the identity of a blogger that called her that, a lot more people now know.
This is another case where letting it slide would have been the best thing to do. Why? The blog in question had a total of four posts on it.
The big problem is the potential legal ramifications of this lawsuit. The judge has ruled that calling Cohen a “skank” is potentially defamatory and not just an opinion or everyday insult. To quote CitMediaLaw:
But Madden found that use of the terms “skank,” “skanky,” “ho” and “whoring” defamed Cohen because they appeared in captions near photos of the model in provocative poses. “Under these circumstances,” Madden wrote, the words combined with the suggestive photos “carry a negative implication of sexual promiscuity.”
Madden also rejected the blogger’s contention that the words were vague insults. “In the context of this specific blog, such words cannot be reasonably viewed as comparable in meaning and usage to the word ‘jerk’ or any other loose and vague insult,” Madden held.
It’ll be interesting to see where this case goes.
