Update: Aug. 1, 2019
The Wall Street Journal, in an op-ed by David Rivkin and Donald Grossman, points out that the judge consider's Phillips's claim that Sandmann was blocking him a purported opinion, not a purported fact. (French as a language would come in handy with subjunctive mood conjugations -- I noticed this reading French signs in Canada, the language is inherently careful not to claim suppositions as facts.) The article goes on to make an "orginalist libel defense" going back to the 1964 NYT Sullivan case, but it is hard to follow.
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