Premise: I've related to them, quite frankly, this is the first case we've ever had in federal court in the years that I've been doing newspaper law, and most of our cases are in county courts, and so, you know, there's a different issue there. But having said that, the concern that I have is that there is a precedent being set in the counties that these people otherwise work.
Hypothesis: The speaker in the context is familiar with libel