Legal Question in Employment Law in District of Columbia
Slander/or Defamation
If someone writes something negative and demeaning about
you in a report and then sends
it to a list server for 20 some other
folks to view is this slander/or
defamation? Also, can any
legal action be taken against this
individual for doing this sort
of degrading this? If so, what do
you suggestion?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Slander/or Defamation
This type of question comes up quite frequently now in this and other legal question forums involving alleged defamation by way of the Internet.
The answers to these inquiries seem to persistenly suggest (in my opinion) that although such actions may be technically defaming of the person or persons referenced, they most often fail for a variety of reasons to cross the quite high threshhold necessary to constitute provable defamation in most jurisdictions.
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