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You can't defame a dead person.



I'll rephrase "can the family of the dead person sue people for causing emotional - and potentially financial - trauma due to people making false claims of criminal activity?"

I also get there's a glib "you can sue for anything, but it can always be thrown out" response, but that's a non-answer.


I understood the question and believe the answer to be “no”.




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