Defamation is the act of publishing false and damaging statements about a person or business to a third party. Traditionally, defamatory statements have been separated into two categories: slander and ...

Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely ...

The terms defamation, libel and slander may be used interchangeably in popular culture, but they are different in important ways. Some of these differences date back to medieval times, but they still ...