Billboard Publicity Wire distributes press release about legal and political issues that are accurate and conform to our editorial guidelines.

Press releases on Billboard Publicity Wire about legal cases and political issues must:

• Cite from and contain a case or complaint number, court of record or other sufficient documentation for all officially filed legal actions and accusations of illegal conduct referenced in the release
• Contain explicit attribution to an authorized source of the material
• Be accurate and free of potentially libelous material
• Be free of content intended to harm or exact revenge upon an individual or group
• Be written in an acceptable press release format

Press releases on Billboard Publicity Wire about legal cases and political matters can:

• Contain fair comment of a political or public figure as long as this content does not cross over into libel territory
• Express the opinion or official stance of an organization on a public issue or current event with appropriate, authorized attribution

Press releases on Billboard Publicity Wire about legal cases and political matters are not:

• Announcements of intentions to file a court case against an individual or group
• Open letters
• Potentially libelous, which is defined as content that falsely depicts or implies:
• A person has committed a crime or is guilty of illegal activity
• A person lacks mental capacity
• A person has engaged in immoral behavior
• A person has a loathsome disease
• An invasion of someone's privacy
• Threatening, abusive, menacing, offensive, violent, intimidating or otherwise objectionable
• Intended to harm or exact revenge upon an individual or group, which is defined as content that is deemed intended to:
• Incite, advocate or express hatred, bigotry, racism or gratuitous violence
• Promote personal opinions attacking an individual or group
• Maliciously affect a company's stock
• Stalk, defame, defraud, degrade, shame or victimize an individual or group

* Billboard Publicity Wire's editorial staff reviews all press releases before distribution. Billboard Publicity Wire editors have the final say in determining what content is appropriate for distribution on the Billboard Publicity Wire platform. These guidelines are meant to supplement Billboard Publicity Wire’s terms of service, which require users to be responsible for the content and accuracy of all information submitted to us.

Also see: http://blog.prweb.com/2006/10/press_releases_.html