Urgent!! In need of legal help!?

Here's the story, i'll condense it as much as I can. My mother is friends with her co-worker, lets call her Jane.They used to work together, but Jane quit and hated her job, so my mother pulled some strings and got her a job again. One day my mother was talking with her boss who had asked her to find out if Jane was okay, because she had been acting depressed since she began working her new job. My mother, being her friend, and I being friends with her son, called her son, lets call him Thomas. Well Thomas recorded their conversation where my mother said things like (Jane is such a wonderful worker, and friend I was concerned.. etc) Thomas took this recorded conversation, gave it to Jane, and Jane is now suing my mother, and her boss for Slander.

My questions are:

- Was that recorded conversation, without cause illegal?
- Was she right to sue for slander? When my mother is a close friend, and only trying to help because she seemed depressed?
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I Live in NY

joveesasha

It is not acceptable in court. No right but you can sue for anything these days, I suggest your mom counter sue and later agree to drop sue if she drops. Go figure, that's what you get for helping friends...what's this world coming too. Your mom seems to be a very nice person.

All Me

That's not going to go through court. Mention the fact that she was depressed though, and she'll get help. Umm, does she even know the definition of Slander?

sophieb

how can we determine that when you didn't tell us what words she used (when she was accused of slander).

I know that tape recordings can't be used in court.
And, I'd be wondering if Thomas rephrased the comments your mom made when he told his mother.

slander is a oral false malicious defamation, and it's difficult to prove that it was malicious since your mother was acting as a do-gooder..

It's a lesson for your mother to never do that again, to ask someone's son instead of talking with the person directly, and never to ask for a former employer. That employer can call that woman themself.

I don't think she has a case, however we don't know all that your mother said, but I don't think it's provable in court. I would think that Thomas would have to have been a witness "in person" that he heard something wrong said.

777 :)

What ever! Slander is if she is saying bad things about her to other people. the Judge will laugh her out of court. Tell your mom to tell the truth and it will be all good. Trust me. Judges have better things to do. Just don't talk to this women anymore. Or her son. They sound like freak n trailer trash!!!!

redvelvetflames4ever

How ridiculous a situation. They have no case for slander. I mean zilch -- nada -- nothing. You could record anything you want in New York and not advise the other party. How I nailed my former employer and it's being used against him now in court. But as for your mom's so called friend who should be lynched based on what you wrote. Again. There is no case. Tell this person to buy a dictionary and read up on what slander is.

SapphireB

Tape recordings such as that are not legal in court unless BOTH party's know that the conversation is being recorded. She (Jane) should be going after her own son (Thomas) as HE is the one doing the recording. That is a shame that Jane turned her back on your mother when all she was doing was trying to help out. I think your mother might ought to rethink having Jane as a friend after this. Jane might get laughed out of court IF it goes that far as per what you said there was no slander on your mothers behalf. I mean saying that she is a wonderful worker is not slandering Jane at all. But really Jane should go after her own son if anybody at all.

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