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| | Slander and libel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the United States, about 75% of defamation lawsuits are filed in state courts, and the remaining 25% in federal courts. | | | Laws regulating slander and libel in the United States began to develop even before the American Revolution. | | | However, those jurisdictions that distinguish "libel" and "slander" as legal concepts do so on the following broad basis: defamatory communication in writing is termed "libel" while one made via the spoken word is termed "slander". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander
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| | Legal Definition of Slander |
| | For this offence, when the slander is merely verbal, the remedy is an action on the case for damages; when it is reduced to writing or printing, it is a libel. | | | A letter addressed to the party, containing libelous matter, is not sufficient to maintain a civil action, though it may subject the libeler to an indictment, as tending to a breach of the peace; the slander must be published respecting the plaintiff; a mother cannot maintain an action for calling her daughter a bastard. | | | The slander must, of course, be published, that is communicated to a third person; and if verbal, then in a language which he understands, otherwise the plaintiff's reputation is not impaired. |
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http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s052.htm
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| | Modrall Sperling :: Libel and Slander |
| | The claimant in a slander per quod case was required to prove special damages in order to prevail on liability. | | | The claimant in a slander per se case was not required to prove special damages in order to establish liability. | | | Courts distinguished between libel and slander in order to impose more severe punishment in libel cases. |
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http://www.modrall.com/articles/article_12.html
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| | Libel/Slander |
| | In the law, a "tort" is private wrong-doing not arising out of contract, and the twin torts of libel and slander make up the general tort category of defamation of character. | | | Scott Law Firm handles libel and slander (also known as defamation) cases and provides a no-charge consultation to prospective clients to evaluate such cases. | | | This rule is called the "publication" requirement, and the term is used even in slander cases which involved oral statements. |
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http://www.scottlawfirm.com/libel.htm
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| | slander on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855. | | | Analysis: Washington State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles is pushing to have the state's slander of a woman law repealed |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/x/x-slander.asp
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| | LII: lexicon |
| | Unlike libel, damages from slander are not presumed and must be proven by the party suing. | | | A false statement, usually made orally, which defames another person. |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/lexicon/slander.htm
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| | [EMLS 7.2 (September, 2001]: 4.1-29 Performance, Subjectivity and Slander |
| | Kaplan gives evidence of the rise in slander legislation after the 1560s and offers several reasons for this, but the main reason seems to have been changes in the law consequent on the state's increased use of defamation as both the means of policing and justifying royal authority and as its chief false accusation, i.e. | | | His antic disposition is at once symptomatic of the warped theatricality of the court, and diagnostic of the madness of its discourse and ceremonies. | | | Hamlet in the front region is seen to define the displayed interiority in opposition to the hypocritical theatricality of the court by positing a sincere performer-interiority, which must be seen to be hinting at his enemy's secret. |
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http://purl.oclc.org/emls/07-2/pietslan.htm
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| | Should Audio-Visual Defamation on the Internet be Treated as Libel or Slander? |
| | Thus, once again, in such aforementioned cases where the plaintiff is unable to demonstrate actual harm, this distinction, between libel and slander, may yet once again prove dispositive as to whether or not the plaintiff's efforts to secure damages succeeds or fails. | | | However, in an action for libel, harm was presumed.5 Therefore, if the plaintiff was unable to demonstrate specific harm, this distinction, between libel and slander, would have been dispositive as to whether or not the plaintiff was financially compensated for his or her reputational loss -- no small matter. | | | Unlike traditional defamation cases involving local broadcasters and newspapers, is it more foreseeable that a given defamatory statement expressed on one of an innumerable sea of websites may reach few, if any, of those who knew of, or should have reasonably been expected to have otherwise later learned of, the plaintiff or the plaintiff's reputation. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/cls99/sempaper/zelote416.html
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| | DEFAMATION ON THE INTERNET |
| | Accordingly, if the case is governed by the substantive law of those jurisdictions, restrictions applicable to slander would not be available as defences. | | | As a result, one may wonder if the courts will apply libel law or slander law to given content which may be a combination of visual and spoken information transmitted by “Internet radio”. | | | Courts in Canada, the United States and Britain have ruled that television broadcast, in the absence of deeming legislation, is slander on some authorities and libel on others. |
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http://www.adidem.org/articles/DS5.html
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| | LWN: Of Copyright Transfers, Slander of Title, and SCO |
| | It still needs to get worked out in the courts, but it isn't slander of title, because it's not malicious to assert what you believe are your legal rights. | | | While SCO alleges that the copyrights were to have transferred under the Asset Purchase Agreement, clearly it didn't happen, or there would be no dispute heading to court. | | | The plaintiff must prove the loss of a specific sale, i.e., that a pending sale was defeated by the slander. |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/69415
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| | Defamation |
| | Your employer will be liable where he or she knew or should have known that someone facing circumstances similar to yours would have been compelled to "self-publish" the defamatory statements, and dthe court asks is, was theid nothing to prevent it. | | | If the damages from defamation were thought to arise as a normal risk from the employment relationship and were regarded as a form of personal injury, rather than an injury to the "property" of your reputation, you would be forced to file a worker's compensation claim.You would not be able to sue in civil court. | | | At another time or place the statement by your employer would be slanderous if it were false, but in the context of the labor hearing the statement is absolutely privileged. |
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http://www.faceintel.com/defamation.htm
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| | Libel and Slander Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.12 |
| | In an action for libel or slander, where the statement of defence does not assert the truth of the statement complained of, the defendant may not give evidence in chief at trial, in mitigation of damages, concerning the plaintiff's character or the circumstances of publication of the statement, except, | | | In an action for slander of title, slander of goods or other malicious falsehood, it is not necessary to allege or prove special damage, |
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http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Statutes/English/90l12_e.htm
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| | Jordan: Slander Charge Signals Chill (Human Rights Watch, 23-12-2004) |
| | In addition to the article 191 on slander against government officials, the Penal Code attaches a two-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of making statements that are found to “endanger the country's relations with foreign states
, [or] defame heads, presidents or kings of foreign states.” | | | Jordan should also eliminate criminal penalties for defamation, including slander, in cases that do not involve direct and immediate incitement to acts of violence, discrimination or hostility, Human Rights Watch said. | | | While the government has pledged to ease restrictions on political freedom as part of its ambitious plans for reform, Human Rights Watch said the government has failed to amend the laws it relies on to restrict freedom of expression. |
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http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/23/jordan9929.htm
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| | Defamation Law, Libel Law, Slander Law - MegaLaw.com |
| | Defamation is a legal action sounding in tort based on an intentional or reckless public false statement that injures another person's reputation. | | | Can I sue for defamatory statements made by a witness under oath in a judicial proceeding? | | | What damages are available for slander or libel? |
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http://www.megalaw.com/top/defamation.php
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| | Slander: Dangerous Weapon of Cowards Imam Reza (A.S.) Network |
| | The jurists and ethics scholars agree that there are some cases in which slander is permitted, but they have some dissidence in specifying those cases. | | | b- Is permit for slandering about notorious one restricted to the sins which he performs publicly, or it is permitted in all cases? | | | 5- Slander hinders acceptance of deeds and prayers |
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http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=941
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Law firm may net £1.5m in costs for police slander suit |
| | The lawyers' potential windfall will dwarf any likely damages to be won by their client, a Tyneside police inspector who is in dispute with his former chief constable. | | | A law firm acting for the Police Federation stands to win a free gift of £750,000 in extra fees from the taxpayer, if an unprecedented defamation gamble succeeds. | | | Asked if it was fair that defendants should pay huge extra bills for lawyers' winnings as well as damages, he said: "Life's not fair really, is it?" |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1184036,00.html
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| | Libel and Slander |
| | Slander is defamation by oral or spoken communication. | | | The following information regarding libel and slander is brought to you as a public service by the lawyers of the State of Oregon. | | | Libel and slander are two forms of defamation. |
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http://www.osbar.org/public/legalinfo/1186.htm
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| | SLANDER (NINDAA) |
| | The Gurbani does not approve of slandering of anyone in any circumstances; no matter how compelling it may seems to slander someone. | | | : The slanderer died after contracting the deadly fever of slander. | | | Through the Shabad, he is stamped with God's Insignia in His Court (sggs 1330). |
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http://www.gurbani.org/webart59.htm
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| | Unfettered Press: Libel Law in the United States |
| | Today the legal differences between libel and slander have all but disappeared due largely to the dawning of the electronic age. | | | For the United States, the laws that control libel and slander first began to take shape even before the colonies gained their independence from Britain. | | | Libel is a legal term that describes a written form of defamation, which the dictionary defines as a "false or unjustified injury to someone's good reputation." Sometimes the word slander is used in the same breath as libel. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/press/press08.htm
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| | Libel and slander on the world wide web |
| | We speak here of reputation and while this applies to any individual in UK and Australian law, there is a distinct in most US defamation laws between a public figure and a private person. | | | The distinction is that the spoken form is regarded as transitory while the written form is permanent and the latter has the greater potential for damage. | | | In its spoken form, it is slander and in the written form it is libel. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6947
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Slander |
| | Slander involves a violation of commutative justice and therefore imposes on its perpetrator the obligation of restitution. | | | There is, however, this difference between slander and detraction: that, whereas there are circumstances in which we may lawfully expose the misdeeds which another has actually committed, we are never allowed to blacken his name by charging him with what he has not done. | | | It is supposed that the damage which ensues has been in some measure foreseen by the slanderer. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14035b.htm
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| | Slander |
| | The Daleel (evidence) On the Prohibition of Slander | | | The Nammaam does in one hour what a magician cannot do in one year.” It was also said, “The acts of Nammaam are more harmful than the acts of Shaitan. | | | The word Nameemah (Slander) usually refers to the act of carrying tales from one person to another. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/me/ummnurah/deen7.html
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| | Libel and Slander |
| | Both are a matter of state laws, which usually (not always) require that the falsehood be intentional. | | | Slander is the same doctrine applied to the spoken word. |
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http://www.spectacle.org/freespch/musm/libel.html
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| | Slander - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
| | Especially is false witness, which is "slander carried into a court of justice," to be condemned and punished (Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 19:16-21; compare Proverbs 12:17; 14:5,25; 19:5; 21:28; 24:28). | | | Slander (etymologically a doublet of "scandal," from OFr. | | | Even a land may be slandered as well as persons (Numbers 14:36). |
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http://beta.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8227
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| | CPT's Page on Foreign Libel, Slander and Defamation Cases |
| | One of the frustrating issues in working on the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction is the astonishing low level of concern among newspaper and press organizations over the impact of the Convention on laws involving speech. | | | CPT's Page on Foreign Libel, Slander and Defamation Cases | | | It is in the same category as the bombing of the printing press of the Daily News, the forceful closing of Capital Radio, the torturing of journalists and the like. |
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http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/defamation.html
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| | Slander is a civil wrong (tort) and can be the basis for a lawsuit. | | | Damages (payoff for worth) for slander may be limited to actual (special) damages unless there is malicious intent, since such damages are usually difficult to specify and harder to prove. | | | Words spoken over the air on television or radio are treated as libel (written defamation) and not slander on the theory that broadcasting reaches a large audience as much as if not more than printed publications. |
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http://dictionary.law.com/definition2.asp?selected=1969
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| | Media Slander : 100 Ways to Slander a Soldier |
| | The subject at issue, of course, isn't whether or not "the right" should have been "appeased." It's whether charges of war crimes should have been made—against the "U.S. military" or against "the troops" is a distinction without a difference here—in the absence of any evidence to support those charges. | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 100 Ways to Slander a Soldier: | | | And in this she's correct: There 100 different ways of making a slanderous accusation—none of them acceptable to those on the receiving end of the slander. |
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http://www.radiobs.net/mediaslander/archives/2005/05/100_ways_to_sla.php
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| | Fighting Slander |
| | It may also be useful for public figures, or those in the news a lot. | | | Because most slander and libel law is a result of Federal appeals court decisions, or the U.S. Supreme Court, it applies across the country. | | | The guide is applicable in all 50 states. |
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http://dancingwithlawyers.com/publications/fighting-slander.shtml
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| | SPAWN: Libel, Slander, Defamation: What's the Difference? |
| | He cannot sue the court for defamation (or slander for that matter). | | | This time the court says he is a thief. | | | There are two forms of the Libelous action If the action is in writing, it is called "defamation": If the action is spoken, then it is "slander". |
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http://www.spawn.org/marketing/slander.htm
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| | Defamation: Libel and Slander Law |
| | Slander involves the making of defamatory statements by a transitory (non-fixed) representation, usually an oral (spoken) representation. | | | The area of law most implicated by that type of conduct is "defamation of character", a cause of action which is generally defined to include "libel" and slander". | | | It is not unusual for attorneys to receive inquiries about defamation actions from people who are in conflicts with neighbors or other members of their communities, and have become the subjects of vicious lies. |
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http://www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/defamation.html
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| | Defamation and Slander - Tim's Missouri Employment Law Info Site |
| | If his motive is, for example, "retaliation", then he may be violating the retaliation laws even if the things he says are not technically "defamation." That's why lawyers look for other things to sue over, even though you might think the only reason to sue is "defamation." | | | The second thing to know is that you have only a TWO year statute of limitations to sue for pure defamation and slander in Missouri. | | | The fourth thing to know is that in any pure defamation or slander case you have to prove these things, called the "elements of the case": |
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http://www.timslaw.com/defamation-slander.htm
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| | Meaning Of Slander |
| | Naturally, one should follow wise advice, but one must not accept misleading guidance. | | | The act of slander is that much heavier, that much more onerous. | | | The gravest of all forms of evil acts is the slander of the True Law, the act of condemning, deprecating, mocking or rejecting the correct Buddhist teaching or its practitioners out of antagonism or hatred. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/sgm/slander.html
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| | Slander book review - AGGRESSIVE-VOICE.COM |
| | Gone are the days when the "praise" list on the back flap included Bill Maher - a liberal friend, and Geraldo Rivera to get noticed. | | | This book review has been written three years after Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right was first published, but this hasn't been the first time I reviewed it. | | | Before Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right Coulter wasn't the well-known firebrand that she is today. |
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http://www.aggressive-voice.com/zz512.html
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| | Defamation law and free speech |
| | Defamation law allows people to sue those who say or publish false and malicious comments. | | | * Oral defamation -- called slander -- for example comments or stories told at a meeting or party. |
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http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/defamation.html
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| | Ann Coulter's Slander: An Analysis |
| | So I obtained a review copy of Slander though a friend in the mainstream media. | | | I was incredulous when I heard that the premise of the book was that the incivility and dishonesty in contemporary American political discourse was entirely the fault of the political left. | | | Ann Coulter’s Slander: The Title is Correct—But for the Wrong Reasons. |
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http://www.anncoulter.blogspot.com
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| | GOPAC, Newt Gingrich's captive PAC, famously issued a memo suggesting the following words to describe Democrats: "sick, traitors, destructive, corrupt, bizarre, cheat, and steal." Such constructive advice is the sum total of the memo – how to (shall we say?) slander Democrats. | | | SLANDER: NYT uses phrase "moderate Republican" 168 times, "liberal Republican" 11 times. | | | Try, for example, Coulter, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right; Brock, The Real Anita Hill (Brock has written at length about how his was a "hoax book written by a conservative"). |
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http://www.slannder.homestead.com/files/slanndermain.html
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| | Child Day Care Services. Step-by-step Guide to starting your own day care center for profit. |
| | We shall not be responsible for content appearing on third party sites which are linked to the Site. | | | We will at all times refrain from any slander, libel, derogatory comments or practices that may be detrimental to the business of others. | | | While we may get vocal and draw attention to such practices (which are deemed incompatible with our own manifesto) we always respect the rights of others to conduct their business in any way they please. |
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http://ruslink.netfirms.com/start.daycare.center/child.day.care.services.html
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| | TAP: Web Feature: Tapped:. by . July 26, 2002. |
| | But perhaps now the chat shows will stop billing Coulter as a "constitutional lawyer." No wonder the profession is held in such low regard. | | | The House has the power to impeach; the Senate only votes on whether or not to convict. | | | For Lexis, we searched for "liberal Republican" in The New York Times over "all available dates" -- and got 524 documents. |
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http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/07/tapped-s-07-26.html
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| | America Online Slander |
| | Is it possible that the information you're reporting is untrue, slanderous, and likely to cause commercial liability to AOL in direct violation of federal and international law? | | | Because you're a rabble-rousing liar with nothing better to do, so you decided to slander a large service provider? | | | Because you don't have the first damn clue about how they build large software products? |
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http://www.darklock.com/wpaper/aol2.html
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| | slander: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Defamation of a person by unprivileged oral communication made to a third party; also Defamatory oral statements | | | - An action for slander may be brought without alleging and proving special damages if the statements in question have a plainly harmful character, as by imputing to the plaintiff criminal guilt, serious sexual misconduct, or conduct or a characteristic affecting his or her business or profession. | | | The tort of oral defamation (sued his former employer for slander) compare defamation false light libel |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/slander
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| | Easongate: The Price of Slander |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Price of Slander: | | | Absence of transcript + resignation = actionable slander. | | | For the slanderous charges Jordan made against the fine men and women serving our country in the military, resignation is the least he could do. |
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http://billroggio.com/easongate/archives/2005/02/the_price_of_sl.php
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| | Is It True What They Say About Ann? |
| | Ann Coulter is the author of Slander, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Treason, and most recently, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must). | | | The most controversial political commentator of our day, Ann Coulter has sparred with Katie on the "Today Show," faced down Alan Dershowitz on "Geraldo" and sparked stormy confrontation on scores of college campuses. | | | Is It True What They Say About Ann? |
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http://www.anncoulterdoc.com
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| | Backbiting & Slander - an Islamic perspective |
| | Let's see what the Quran states about backbiting and slander - | | | Those who indulge in backbiting are oblivious of the fact that they are only harming themselves. | | | Do not treat the issue of Backbiting and Slander with indifference because it is a great sin |
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http://www.islamfortoday.com/backbiting01.htm
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| | Irish defamation law |
| | Defamation is what is known as a "strict liability" offence, which means that the state of mind of the offender is irrelevant. | | | In the 1840 case of Ahern v Maguire, Chief Baron Brady said that, if a letter "however slanderous, is received only by the person to whom it is addressed, and does not go beyond him, there is no publication of it in law to support an action for libel". | | | Historically, libel was the written form of defamation, while slander was the spoken form. |
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http://indigo.ie/~kwood/defamation.htm
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| | Food Slander |
| | June 1, 1999: Food Slander Laws Stifle Dissent | | | April 12, 1999: Food Slander Laws Stifle Criticism of Unsafe Food in the USA | | | One of Organic Consumers Association's goals is to repeal the anti-free speech, anti-activist "food disparagement" or "food slander" laws which agribusiness and the chemical-biotech industry have now passed in 13 US states. |
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http://www.purefood.org/slanlink.html
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