Massachusetts has done it again! By ruling that a company can be guilty of "libel" (the written form of "slander") even though they wrote the truth, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston has set the First Amendment back over 100 years. Basically what happened was that Alan S. Noonan was fired from Staples for lieing on expense reports (essentially stealing) and for some reason, one of the higher ups decided to email 1500 employees why he was fired. The judges on the appeals court applied a 1902 law that defines "actual malice" as being mean, instead of applying the 1964 law that every other court in country uses which defines "actual malice" as disregarding the truth.

But wait...does that mean that Alan is going to sue me next?