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Is it legal for my wife to use spyware to extort me during our divorce?
My case is complicated as I'm sure many are. I am in a divorce preceding and am currently separated from my wife. I am staying at the house and she had chose to leave and move into a condo in our same town. She had, when we were married installed a program on our computer to track the usage of her son...so she claims. She used this program to track my usage on the computer and ...
02/28/2009 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: Texas | #15395What can I do if a co-worker is making false statements to my boss about my work?
I've been working at a nonprofit mental health organization for a little over a year. Throughout the period, my boss has treated me badly enough to make me feel a non-existing individual in occasional manner. My co-worker, who has a medical disability, is always late on her assignments; which I end up completing, and never on time for the meetings. Simply put, I have recently ...
02/06/2009 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: California | #15178Can our rental company contact my husband's employer and slander him?
We're hoping to understand if we have a slander case on our hands. My family was living in a temporary rental home due to a corporate relocation. A few weeks before we moved to a permanent residence, I was pulling into the garage in my car and was about 2/3 in, when the garage door reversed and came down on the car roof. Fortunately for us, there was no damage to my car and ...
12/16/2008 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: Arizona | #14818Does My Employer Need To Have 15 Or More Employees In Order To File Federal Charges Against Him
The Pastor of our church was very inappropriate in several ways. He has less than 15 employees. I was told that he had to have 15 employees to punish him on a federal level. Is there something I can do on a state level? I was his personal assist for 6 months and was never paid like promised. He has embarrassed me and slandered me. What can I do?
11/21/2008 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: Texas | #14713What are the grounds for slander?
I was let go from my job, reason giving cause of money shortages at this business. Now I am being accused of taking this money. Which I did not do. Workers from this business are telling customers and my friends I was fired because I took money from this business. Do I have a slander case?
11/18/2007 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: Virginia | #12468Does my girlfriend or myself have any sort of case for emotional distress or harassment?
I was recently involved in a dispute which resulted in myself receiving a criminal trespass warning. I was at my girlfriend's apartment with my girlfriend present. She left, and 5 minutes later her roommate showed up. The roommate did not want me there, and called the police to have them remove me from the apartment. She continuously yelled and screamed at me, used foul lan...
10/26/2007 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: Texas | #11022What constitutes grounds for a lawsuit based on slander?
Would the following constitute grounds for a lawsuit based on slander? I work as a RN at a hospital. I recieved a telephone order from a physician for a medication (morphine) after a patient had fallen and injured her head at the hospital. The patient ended up having a sub-dural bleed with complications and now the physician is denying that he ever gave myself the order for t...
10/26/2007 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: North Carolina | #11019Is there anything I can do if the sheriffs department is slandering my name?
Is there anything I can do if the sheriffs department is slandering my name?
06/15/2007 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: California | #6456I was recently terminated from my job, as a CNA, on charges of misconduct. Although, I had the right to appeal the terminatio...
I was recently terminated from my job, as a CNA, on charges of misconduct. Although, I had the right to appeal the termination regarding unemployment compensation and it was ruled that I was not guilty of misconduct. I discovered that the Administrator wrote on my termination paper that my co-worker had verified that I had done what they said I had done. It was a degrading stat...
05/31/2007 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: Wisconsin | #6088In the State of South Carolina what can you do about slander?
In the State of South Carolina what can you do about slander?
05/24/2007 | Category: Civil Actions » Defamation | State: South Carolina | #5893