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Example sentences for: slander

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Slander is a false report meant to do harm and is legally actionable.
Of course I don't believe Bill Gates ordered you to slander Java!
In that world, if someone argued (as Richard does above) that a "law of privacy" was needed, as well as law protecting trade secrets; that laws regulating libel and slander were necessary, as well as a law regulating blackmail; if one even raised the issue of taxation, or suggested that the government was needed to "secure the infrastructure", then one would not be a "libertarian."
It is possible to defame people over the net, and to do so far and wide: The problem of multi-jurisdiction squabbles over libel and slander does not disappear It is possible to blackmail people over the net, as well.
A jury cleared Carroll O'Connor of slander for calling his deceased son's cocaine supplier "a partner in murder."