Pleading

• If you are charging someone with slander, you need not show with extraneous evidence the specific ways the statement in question hurt your reputation or image. You only need to show a defamatory statement was made about you.
  
  

Libel---retraction---actual damages

• If the statement in question was made on television or radio and the defendant can prove the statement was made in error, then the plaintiff can only recover his actual damages. This does not hold true if the plaintiff demanded a retraction and was refused.
  
  

Retraction---actual, special, and exemplary damages

• The plaintiff can recover actual, special and exemplary damages if the defendant has failed or refused to broadcast a retraction at a time considered as favorable as that of the defamatory statement. The timeframe for retraction is within two weeks of the plaintiff's demand.
  
  

Defamatory statement by radio

• The owner, lessee, licensee or operator of a radio station cannot be held liable for damages of any defamatory statement made on the station by anyone other than themselves, so long as they can prove they exercised proper care to prevent the utterance of such statements on the air.
  
  

Proof of malice

• If the defendant fails to prove the truth of the matter about the statement in question, it does not prove the statement was issued with malicious intent unless the jury believes this to be the case.