Courts have concluded that no one should be convicted of perjury without demonstrating that the testimony in question was in fact false, that the person testifying knew it to be false, and that the testimony involved an issue that is material to the case, one that could influence the outcome of the matter one way or the other.
In a 5-page opinion issued late Friday, Scalia said the Louisiana courts may have erred by refusing to allow Philip Morris and other cigarette companies to question individual plaintiffs about whether they relied on false statements to continue smoking.
Then there's the question of how Perusquia got away with sending what appear to be false account statements from a fax machine in its San Francisco office.
Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it's unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing).