Know Your Rights
Knowing your legal rights and responsibilities
Please keep in mind that this Resource Center is a work in progress and new information and content is in the process of being added.
Know Your Rights
Knowing your legal rights and responsibilities
Please keep in mind that this Resource Center is a work in progress and new information and content is in the process of being added.
Legal Claims Based on False Speech
- Defamation
- What is a Defamatory Communication?
- Is it Libel or Slander?
- Can Dead People Be Defamed?
- Defamation of Corporations and Partnerships
- Defamation of Groups or Individual Members
- Can An Opinion Be Defamatory?
- Libel and Slander Per Se
- Liability For Repeating Defamatory Statement
- Proof of Harm Requirement for Liable and Slander Damages
- Is Truth A Defense to Defamation?
- Am I Liable for Republishing Defamatory Statements?
- Defamation-Public Official (or Figure) vs. Private Person
- Consent as a Defense to Defamation
- Defamation & The Defense of Privilege
- False Light
- Business Disparagement
- Tortious Interference with Contractual or Business Relations
- Civil Conspiracy
- Fraud or Misrepresentation
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Legal Claims Based on Privacy
- Publication of Private Facts (Invasion of Privacy, Intrusion Upon Seclusion)
- Using the Name or Likeness of Another (Intrusion Upon Seclusion, Invasion of Privacy)
- Right of Publicity
- Trade Secrets
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Stored Communication Privacy Act
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act