Davis, 371 U.S. 178,182, 83 S.Ct. 227, 230, 9 L.Ed.2d 222 (1962). Therefore, in the absence of any “justifying reasons”, it was error for the district court to deny the facially valid motion to amend. Normally, we would remand this case to the dist the phone call Wade made to the police and on a report about the incident that Wade filed with his supervisor. Texas law defines libel as “a written or printed defamation which tends to injure the reputation of a living person and thus expose him to public hatred, contempt, ridicule, or financial injury, or impeach his honesty, integrity, virtue or reputation.” Sellards v. Express-News Corp., 702 S.W.2d 677, 679 (Tex.Ct.App.1985). Slander is a defamatory statement orally communicated or published to a third person without legal e App.1977) (<HOLDING>). In order to overcome the defense of privilege
holding that communications to the police are conditionally privileged holding that accountants worksheets did not contain privileged communications holding that if counsel retained by an insurer acts as an investigator and not as an attorney then the communications between the insured and insurer are not privileged holding that authorization cards are privileged from disclosure to employer holding that trial court properly refused to permit disclosure of privileged communications in part because use of the privileged information was not essential to the defense