If one intentionally makes false, harmful statements about another person when giving a speech...?

Question

this would most likely be the tort of:

a. Slander
b. False light
c. Libel
d. Malice

Answer 1

a. slander - malign or defame

Answer 2

Slander would best answer your question.

Slander is defined as harmful statement in a transitory form, especially speech) . I think this your fit yuor question best.

libel (harmful statement in a fixed medium, especially writing but also a picture, sign, or electronic broadcast), each of which gives a common law right of action.

Malice (legal term), a legal term describing the intent to harm

[edit] False light
This tort encompasses the claim that publicity invades a person's privacy by a false statement or representation that places the person in a false light that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person. For example, in Peoples Bank & Trust Co. v. Globe Int'l, Inc., a tabloid newspaper printed the picture of a 96-year-old Arkansas woman next to the headline “SPECIAL DELIVERY: World's oldest newspaper carrier, 101, quits because she's pregnant! I guess walking all those miles kept me young”. 786 F. Supp. 791, 792 (D. Ark. 1992). The woman (not in fact pregnant), Nellie Mitchell, who had run a small newsstand on the town square since 1963, prevailed at trial under a theory of false light invasion of privacy, and was awarded damages of $1.5M. The tabloid appealed, generally disputing the offensiveness and falsity of the photograph, and arguing that Mitchell had not actually been injured, and claiming that Mitchell had failed to prove that any employee of the tabloid knew or had reason to know that its readers would conclude that the story about the pregnant carrier related to the photograph printed alongside. The court of appeals rejected all the tabloid’s arguments, holding that “[i]t may be. . .that Mrs. Mitchell does not show a great deal of obvious injury, but. . . Nellie Mitchell's experience could be likened to that of a person who had been dragged slowly through a pile of untreated sewage. . . [and] few would doubt that substantial damage had been inflicted by the one doing the dragging.”

Answer 3

Definitely Slander. Slander is spoken, libel is written, malice could apply too, and I don't know what false light is.

Answer 4

the person is guilty of slander. They could possibley be found guilty of malice, or found to libel if that person inccurred damages as a result of first persons speech.

Answer 5

The idea of an assignment is to improve your reasoning and research abilities. Go do the work. Asking for answers here proves you should fail this course.

Answer 6

Slander. Publishing the speech would be libel.

Answer 7

a. slander, libel is what you could be, if malice was proven, using a false light detector

Answer 8

Slander because the act is being made to place a blemish on someone speaking.

Answer 9

Slander


To the person that was asking about false light - see this link:
http://netlaw.samford.edu/Martin/AdvancedTorts/falselight.htm

Answer 10

Libel.