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millions in legal fees :(

Can they sue Vandersloot for legal fees? If this was a small magazine or newspaper, they wouldn't have had the resources to fight back and would've lost

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Precisely the point (as raised by the article) - that individuals couldn't have fought this (indeed MJ covered another journalists legal costs when he was named as an individual defendant), and how Vandersloot avoided suing anyone with enough resources to fight back even more aggressively.

Generally, no. Each party bears their own legal fees.

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