SLANDER; ELEMENTS
In order to establish a claim of slander, the plaintiff must prove the following elements:
- That the defendant made a false and defamatory oral communication concerning the plaintiff;
- That the communication was published to a third party;
- That the defendant either knew the communication was false and that it defamed the plaintiff [,] [or] acted in reckless disregard of these matters [, or acted negligently in failing to ascertain them]; and,
- That the publication of the communication was a [proximate] [legal] cause of special damages to the plaintiff [or that the defamatory communication constituted slander per se].
NEV. J.I. 8.02
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