• Heartthrob will have a hard time proving that he did not impregnate costar.
• If the allegation were never published and it circulated around his place of work, then heartthrob will have a hard time proving origination of the slander.
• Heartthrob will have a hard time proving that National Snoop (publisher) acted negligently with the publication.
• If is slander that heartthrob must prove then he must prove that he suffered some kind of special harm, such as a monetary loss or an emotional loss of friendship. In addition, other types of pecuniary harm can be alleged such as: The plaintiff engaged in criminal behavior; • The plaintiff suffers from some type of venereal or otherwise loathsome and communicable disease; • The plaintiff is unfit to conduct his or her business, trade, or profession; • or the plaintiff had engaged in sexual misconduct. …show more content…
For example, in the case of McLaughlin v. Rosanio, 331 N.J. Super. 303 (2000), where the plaintiff alleged that the defendants had defamed him in a radio commercial. Yet, the defendants alleged the claimed defamatory statements were protected political speech was not uttered with actual malice, and that it had not caused any actual damage to plaintiff’s reputation. The motion judge determined that the radio ad was slander, so the plaintiff does not need to prove actual damage. What’s more, it was undisputed by the court that the plaintiff was a public figure so the actual malice standard applied. The statement that qualified, as slander was the assertion of plaintiff committed a criminal