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LeftDude
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What is the name of your state? Washington
I was involved in an incident in which I told another person off. There were no threats or acts of violence. The next thing I know the cops are showing up at my house and I'm hearing a story about how I threatened this person with a gun and tried to physically harm other people who were present in the situation.
What are my other rights besides a defamation lawsuit?
I am sorry that you were treated so poorly by so many, and that your discussion was closed before you got any help. This happens all the time in these forums. Someone asks a question, the few "regulars" come up with atrocious, ignorant information, along with abusive treatment, and when the person reacts, their discussions get locked. They do an awfully poor job here to screen comments and posters.
Most of the people who responded to your thread are ficticious legal counselors. They don't even have a degree, so don't pay much attention to them.
Regarding your claim, I believe you might be able to sue for "defamation per se."
Defamation Per Se
Libel and slander cases are often, as a practical matter, won or lost on the basis of whether the plaintiff-employee can establish defamation per se. The plaintiff-employee who establishes defamation per se is entitled to presumed damages without any specific proof of injuries. Defamation per se 뱑equires that the words used are in and of themselves so obviously and naturally harmful that proof of special damages is unnecessary.?Fried v. Jacobson, 99 Ill. 2d 24, 27, 457 N.E.2d 392, 400 (1983).
There are five classes of words, if falsely communicated, which constitute defamation per se: (1) Those imputing the commission of a criminal offense; (2) Those imputing infection with a communicable disease of any kind which, if true, would tend to exclude one from society; (3) Those imputing inability to perform or want of integrity in the discharge of duties of office or employment; (4) Those prejudicing a particular party in his profession or trade; and (5) those imputing adultery or fornication. Van Horne v. Muller, 185 Ill. 2d 299, 307, 705 N.E.2d 898, 903 (1999).
http://www.workplacelawyer.com/defamation.html
You will have to do a little more research and get consultation with an attorney to verify this is doable and convenient to you. While you haven't suffered damages yet (I assume), you never know if you might in the future.
Good luck.
I was involved in an incident in which I told another person off. There were no threats or acts of violence. The next thing I know the cops are showing up at my house and I'm hearing a story about how I threatened this person with a gun and tried to physically harm other people who were present in the situation.
What are my other rights besides a defamation lawsuit?
I am sorry that you were treated so poorly by so many, and that your discussion was closed before you got any help. This happens all the time in these forums. Someone asks a question, the few "regulars" come up with atrocious, ignorant information, along with abusive treatment, and when the person reacts, their discussions get locked. They do an awfully poor job here to screen comments and posters.
Most of the people who responded to your thread are ficticious legal counselors. They don't even have a degree, so don't pay much attention to them.
Regarding your claim, I believe you might be able to sue for "defamation per se."
Defamation Per Se
Libel and slander cases are often, as a practical matter, won or lost on the basis of whether the plaintiff-employee can establish defamation per se. The plaintiff-employee who establishes defamation per se is entitled to presumed damages without any specific proof of injuries. Defamation per se 뱑equires that the words used are in and of themselves so obviously and naturally harmful that proof of special damages is unnecessary.?Fried v. Jacobson, 99 Ill. 2d 24, 27, 457 N.E.2d 392, 400 (1983).
There are five classes of words, if falsely communicated, which constitute defamation per se: (1) Those imputing the commission of a criminal offense; (2) Those imputing infection with a communicable disease of any kind which, if true, would tend to exclude one from society; (3) Those imputing inability to perform or want of integrity in the discharge of duties of office or employment; (4) Those prejudicing a particular party in his profession or trade; and (5) those imputing adultery or fornication. Van Horne v. Muller, 185 Ill. 2d 299, 307, 705 N.E.2d 898, 903 (1999).
http://www.workplacelawyer.com/defamation.html
You will have to do a little more research and get consultation with an attorney to verify this is doable and convenient to you. While you haven't suffered damages yet (I assume), you never know if you might in the future.
Good luck.
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It's great to see one mature person on this board