What can you do legally about someone hurting your reputation?

Question

What can you do legally about someone hurting your reputation?

Answer 1

send them some dog poo in the mail

Answer 2

I'm not sure as I never ran in that issue. However I am aware of a legal term used, defamation, though the cases I've read about are normally those of work place environments.

The best option would be to follow up on it, here's wikipedia explanation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

You can sue them for slander (spoken untruths) or libel (written untruths).

If what they are saying is true, then probably nothing.