Shively v. Bozanich

How courts have described this case

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• noting that publication requires communication of the 13 defamatory statement to a third party
• defining slander as a “false and unprivileged oral communication attributing to a person . . . certain unfavorable characteristics or qualities”
• defining slander as a “false and unprivileged oral communication attributing to a person . . . certain unfavorable characteristics or 28 qualities”
• collecting cases that reject the application of the discovery rule to statements made in books, magazines, and newspapers because they are “readily discoverable”
• acknowledging the discovery rule has been applied in defamation cases where the alleged defamatory statement occurred in private or in confidential publications not readily available to the plaintiff or public
• explaining the discovery rule “no longer [applies] once the original defamatory statement is published in a book that was distributed to the general public” because at that point, the statement is no longer hidden

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).