"Duck" moniker not fowl play

The court ruled that using the term "kaczory" (literally "drakes," but often translated as "ducks") in reference to President Lech Kaczyński and his brother Jarosław, a former PM and current head of the Law and Justice party, does not constitute defamation.

Kaczyński is one of several surnames in Polish derived from the word "kaczka" ("duck"). Judge Alina Rychlińska ruled that use of the word was not defamatory on the grounds that comparisons of people to animals were not always negative.