A prominent Philadelphia lawyer with some important defamation cases under his belt thinks that Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke could sue conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for calling her a “slut” and “prostitute” over the airwaves.
The lawyer said that Limbaugh could claim the accusations were opinion and protected speech, but actually the accusations were “embedded false statements of fact” and thus potentially defamatory. -db
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 2012, by Michael Hinkelman.