Samuel Albert v. Salmen Loksen, Brooklyn Hospital and Karen Buono

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff must allege “either that the statement complained of caused . . . ‘special harm’ or that it constituted slander ‘per se.’”
• noting that “statements made in the employment context concerning the qualifications and actions of employees” clearly “f[e]ll within the qualified privilege”
• finding that statements made by defendant that physicist plaintiff improperly handled radioactive material and endangered co-workers tended to injure plaintiff in his profession
• noting that defamation “consist[s] of the twin torts of libel and slander,” and that “written defamatory words are libel” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• explaining that “[g]enerally, spoken defamatory words are slander; written defamatory words are libel”
• explaining that “[g]enerally, spoken defamatory words are slander; written defamatory words are libel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).