A customer slandered me by name on an online review for our company. How do I sue him?
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A customer slandered me by name on an online review for our company. How do I sue him?
Wayne V.
05/18/2017
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Overall RatingAverage review
Customer Comments
Jerry hudnall of Loyalty Movers is a thief and a crook and a rip-off artist.
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This is very inappropriate and uncalled for. The guys worked hard and got your
job done in half the time. If you rent a movie and keep it only an hour, you
still payed for the allotted time.
Asked on May 25, 2017 under Business Law, Washington
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
You sue them by filing a summons and complaint in county court--possibly in the small claims part, so you can more easily be your own attorney ("pro se")--for defamation (slander is oral or spoken defamation; libel is written defamation). But what you describe may not be defamation: defamation is only the public stating of a false *fact* about you, not an opinion. Calling you a "thief and a crook and a rip-off artist" is an opinion; as such it is not defamation and is not something you may sue over. Everyone is entitled to have, and state, an opinion, no matter how harmful or unfair. If the customer alleged something factually untrue, such as "he charged for a lost movie when I in fact returned it," that may be defamation, but again, it must be a factual allegation.
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