Tort of Product Disparagement.

Discusses the tort of product disparagement in contrast with the law of defamation. Reviews the State common law privileges and malice requirement of product disparagement cases, and considers the applicability to product disparagement of the constitutional constraints on defamation cases. The tort...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1989.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Discusses the tort of product disparagement in contrast with the law of defamation. Reviews the State common law privileges and malice requirement of product disparagement cases, and considers the applicability to product disparagement of the constitutional constraints on defamation cases. The tort consists of the publication, with malice, of false statements to third persons whose resulting action causes loss to the plaintiff.
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