does anyone know what the criteria for a slander suit is and where to find a lawyer?

Answer 1

Your cause of action would be based on defamation of character. Slander is verbal defamation and libel is written defamation.

Defamation is a false statement of or concerning the plaintiff intended to cause harm or injury to reputation published to a third party. Truth is an abolute defense to defamation.

You can contact your state bar association and look for the referral section for attorneys who specialize in this area of law.

Answer 2

Here is the legal definition of slander under California Law:

Slander is a false and unprivileged publication, orally uttered, and also communications by radio or any mechanical or other
means which:

1. Charges any person with crime, or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for crime;
2. Imputes in him the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease;
3. Tends directly to injure him in respect to his office, profession, trade or business, either by imputing to him general disqualification in those respects which the office or other occupation peculiarly requires, or by imputing something with reference to his office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its profits;
4. Imputes to him impotence or a want of chastity; or
5. Which, by natural consequence, causes actual damage.

One way to find an attorney is by calling the lawyer referral service for your local county bar association.

Answer 3

IANAL. But I think you have to show they they said something that is

1. False,
2. was about you,
3. Caused you some kind of harm.

A possible defense on their part is to claim that they believed that it was true. But, talk to a lawyer because there are all sorts of technicalities in there...

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