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I run a softball league and my competition has been bad mouthing my organization, my teams and myself and partner to the point they have 2 hour meetings and an hour and 45 minutes is about us. He has put in multiple complaints to parks department with us (which has gone no where cause he's full of it) he has said told his teams and mine we have no permits for fields (another lie and could be easily found by going on parks department website) and the straw that breaks the camels back calling me and my partner drug dealers (I run a family business that has existed for over 44 years this couldn't be further from the truth. do I have a case here because im at my breaking point
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Probably not. It sounds like you've had no damages, and in order to prove slander, you must allege special damages, which are quantifiable losses (e.g. lost profits from player desertion, turn-downs for tournament applications, denial of permits, etc.) directly resulting from these statements. If you have money losses, you may have a case, as long as you have the specifics (time, place, content, and who heard them) of the slanderous statements. If you haven't suffered any of those, apparently your stellar reputation precedes you, and nobody believes these statements. You can always write letters of complaint to your mutual overseeing organization, if there is one, and of course there's always the option to write a letter to the editor of your local paper. And on the bright side, if these clowns are spending 45 minutes of their 2 hour meetings discussing you, look how much strategy time they're wasting.
Answered on Mar 24th, 2017 at 10:07 PM