Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida

Re: slander ?

If untrue things are being published about you, it is likely defamation. You can demand that it stop and sue in state court. It is difficult, though, to undo the damage. (It is also difficult to prove, unless people admit they were told certain negative things about you by the person defaming you, or there is documentary evidence.)

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Jeff Sheldon

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Re: slander ?

Generally, an action for libel will lie for false and unprivileged publication by letter, or otherwise, which exposes person to distrust, hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy or which causes such person to be avoided, or which has tendency to injure such person in his office, occupation, business or employment.

The elements of a cause of action for libel are: (1) the defendant published a false statement (2) about the plaintiff (3) to a third party and (4) that the falsity of the statement caused injury to the plaintiff.

Therefore as long as all of the foregoing elements are present for either libel or slander then you will have a cause of action.

And as to proving damages, I agree that it is difficult, however when the defamation refers to someone's profession then damages are presumed to have occurred, the only question is how much?

Sincerely yours,

Randall Gilbert