Questions tagged [slander]
Defamation by spoken word
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In Japan/America, can you be sued for giving something a bad name and thereby hurting a business?
In Japan, there is this meme term called "chi-gyuu" ("Cheese Beef Bowl" in english). It's basically like a Japanese slang version of "incel" or "chud" or ...
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Can someone slander another person on Facebook?
My specific questions are the following:
Can someone take my picture off my Facebook Page and put it on their Facebook page?
What if they do this, slander me, and publish my address?
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Is it legal to out private things about someone?
Bob knows a bunch of factual things about Alice (none of which are under NDA). Can Bob face any consequences for publicly revealing these factual things without Alice's consent? In particular, I'm ...
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Understanding the Amanda Knox, Guilty Verdict for Slander
Amanda Knox is in the news again because she was re-convicted by a court in Florence, Italy, of Slandering Patrick Lumumba during a nightlong interrogation, by falsely blaming him for the murder of ...
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Appropriate insult under law [closed]
Some countries have laws against insults. However the insult is not illegal if it is a direct response to a similar insult or a response to some publicly available information.
Recently a professor at ...
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Is it potentially against the law to publicize libel/slander that someone else made?
Nathan the Nobody makes a statement about how X company is horrible, mistreats its workers, has execs that elicit sex for favours, etc.
A publication (e.g. the New York Times) publishes a huge article ...
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Is accusing someone of a crime slander if you believe the accusation to be true?
I have just read a short story ("The Disagreeable Man", by Henry Cecil) in which a dubious (to me) legal trick is used to con a small town out of a significant amount of money. I want to ...
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Is a false assumption question defamation?
In Canada, if a person is in the habit of embedding false allegations inside questions, e.g., the classic:
"Have you stopped beating your wife?"
is there a point where this becomes ...
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Right to be forgotten on internet forums [closed]
I was recently tricked by an admin into getting booted off a forum of his where I had been active for years.
This happened in a thread (my last) where this admin claims a number of things that are at ...
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When does name-calling become slanderous?
Usually, the difference between ordinary insults/name-calling and actionable slander is taken to be that non-actionable insults are either subjective statements that can't unambiguously be determined ...
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In the Dominion lawsuit at what point does a statement implying, but not explicitly stating, fraud occurred rise to the level of defamation?
It seems the primary defense Fox News' lawyers are making in the Dominion defamation lawsuit seems to be that Fox was only sharing alleged allegations and expressing opinion, but they never explicitly ...
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Can private text messages be considered defamation in Canada? [closed]
I've had long chats via text messages with a friend, where I accused other people of sexually assaulting me (which was true, but I have no way of proving it really...), and mocking other people with ...
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Can I ask a retail store for video & audio they may have of me? [closed]
https://g.co/kgs/Mprheh
Please read the link I provided. It will take you to a Google review I have left for a retail store in my area. It'll explain it all!
Thank you for all and everyone's help.
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Why is a witness evidentiary if it cannot be disproven?
I am having trouble understanding the logic of the law discrepancy between hearsay and witness testimony in towards proving guilt rather than innocence.
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DHL messed up completely, then were very rude with me. Is it libel/defamation if I publish it on the web?
Some background first,
A few months ago I was living abroad and then came back to my hometown. When coming back, I sent myself a package which was full of all my daughter's first drawings from ...
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