March 5, 2014, the trial court rendered judgment granting the Malta Park Defendants’ and Mr. Schmidt’s peremptory exception of no cause of action, dismissing the IIED claim and dismissing Mr. Schmidt as a defendant. Ms. Sullivan’s appeal of the March 5, 2014 judgment is the subject of a companion appeal, 2014-CA-0478. An opinion in the appeal of the companion case is handed down contemporaneously with the opinion in this case. Sullivan v. Malta Park, 14-0478 (La.App. 4 Cir. 12/10/14), 156 So.3d 751, 2014 WL 6982458. 5 . The jurisprudence has recognized that in defamation cases summary judgment is "particularly useful as a 'procedural to 28, 730 (1997) (statements that plaintiff had "affairs” constituted slander per se); Nazeri v. Missouri Valley College, 860 S.W.2d 303, 312 (Mo.1993) (<HOLDING>); Gorman v. Swaggart, 524 So.2d 915, 921
recognizing continued vitality of kassowitz on what is slander per se holding that statements that plaintiff had had an extramarital affair were defamatory per se holding that statements that insinuated that plaintiff was an adulteress were actionable as slander per se under missouri law recognizing that slander per se is actionable without a showing of actual or special damages holding that under south carolina law slander is actionable per se where plaintiff is alleged to have committed adultery