PJC Business 2024

C HAPTER 110 D EFAMATION , B USINESS D ISPARAGEMENT , AND I NVASIONOF P RIVACY

PJC 110.1 Libel and Slander (Comment on Broad Form). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

PJC 110.2 Question and Instruction on Publication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

PJC 110.3 Question and Instructions on Defamatory Nature

of the Publication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

PJC 110.4 Question and Instruction on Falsity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

PJC 110.5 Question and Instruction on Negligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

PJC 110.6 Question and Instructions on Actual Malice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

PJC 110.7 Actual Malice in Cases of Qualified Privilege (Comment) . . . . . 392

PJC 110.8 Question and Instructions on Defense of Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

PJC 110.9 Judicial-Proceedings Privilege and Attorney Immunity

(Comment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

[PJC 110.10–110.14 are reserved for expansion.]

PJC 110.15 Question and Instructions on Business Disparagement . . . . . . . . 397

PJC 110.16 Question and Instruction on Intrusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

PJC 110.17 Question and Instruction on Publication of Private Facts. . . . . . . 402

PJC 110.18 Question and Instruction on Invasion of Privacy by

Misappropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

PJC 110.19 False Light Invasion of Privacy (Comment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

PJC 110.20 Defamation Mitigation Act (Comment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

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