After a nonparty to the lawsuit allegedly told defendant that plaintiff was gay or bisexual, defendant relayed that information to a third-party defendant, a close family friend of plaintiff's longtime girlfriend, with the hope that the girlfriend would be told. Plaintiff, maintaining that defendant's actions caused the deterioration and ultimate termination of his relationship with his girlfriend, filed an action alleging slander per se. The defendant filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the case was legally insufficient due to plaintiff's failure to allege special damages, which involve "the loss of something having economic or pecuniary value." Do you think that the court ultimately found that the accusations of homosexuality or bisexuality amounted to defamation per se? Why or why not?

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Susan Rowe

10 August, 05:59

After a nonparty to the lawsuit allegedly told defendant that plaintiff was gay or bisexual, defendant relayed that information to a third-party defendant, a close family friend of plaintiff's longtime girlfriend, with the hope that the girlfriend would be told. Plaintiff, maintaining that defendant's actions caused the deterioration and ultimate termination of his relationship with his girlfriend, filed an action alleging slander per se. The defendant filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the case was legally insufficient due to plaintiff's failure to allege special damages, which involve "the loss of something having economic or pecuniary value." Do you think that the court ultimately found that the accusations of homosexuality or bisexuality amounted to defamation per se? Why or why not?

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Leandro Watts · Answer 1

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The case is about the defamation claimed by plaintiff on the defendant on the basis of race remark of g a y or bisexual by third party information. This ultimately broken the relationship of two person.

I think that court should ultimately found that the accusations of homosexuality or bisexuality amounted to defamation per se because of the following reason:

The Race Remark on the plaintiff by the defendant. It is a slander per se. This remark impute to the commission of the crime of sodomy. It is implying Unchastity that means Exposing Plaintiff to Public Hatred. This spoils the life of the plaintiff.