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A defamatory statement expressed by speech.
Slander
A defamatory statement expressed in writing.
Libel
In tort law, the communication of a defamatory statement to another person.
Publication
The intent to do a wrongful act without justification or excuse.
Malice
An intentional false and misleading statement about a characteristic of a plaintiff's product, resulting
in financial damage to the plaintiff.
Product disparagement, or trade libel
An encroachment on another person's right to be left alone.
Invasion of privacy
A breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing.
Bad faith (outrage)
A group of torts involving disparagement that causes harm to any kind of legally protected intangible
property right.
Injurious falsehood
A tort involving intentional interference with another's business, or with another's expected economic
advantage.
Malicious interference with prospective economic advantage
Use of wrongful or fraudulent practices by a business to gain an unfair advantage over competitors.
Unfair competition
An unjustified intentional act that interferes with another's valid or expected business relationship.
Interference with employment
A lawsuit by or on behalf of a child with birth defects, alleging that, but for the doctor-defendant's
negligent advice, the parents would not have conceived the child or would have terminated the
pregnancy so as to avoid the pain and suffering resulting from the child's defects.