41 results for 'cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Defamation"'.
Per curiam, the appellate division finds that the trial court properly found for the employer in defamation claims concerning statements that had been made about the employee's professional and medical misconduct because the employer had been required to make such a report. Affirmed.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: May 3, 2024, Case #: CA 23-00146 , Categories: employment, defamation
Per curiam, the circuit finds the district court properly dismissed a doctor's defamation, fraud and age discrimination claims. Utilizing the medical personnel placement service, says he was not selected for a position for which he was referred because of his age. The service did not fail to refer him for employment and the employer did not hire him due to a lack of specific federal experience. The employer's statement the doctor was "difficult to reach" is not defamatory and the record does not support his claims of fraud. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 23-11066, Categories: Fraud, defamation, employment Discrimination
J. Zainey denies a request by Walmart to dismiss as time-barred an overnight stocker’s malicious prosecution and defamation suit. She argues the clock on her claims did not begin running until after a city prosecutor dismissed Walmart’s theft claims. The store had her arrested for twice purchasing multiple packages of newly marked-down meat after her shift ended. In neither instance did she alter the pricing labels, and she paid full price for the meat. Walmart may raise its prescription argument later.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Zainey, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv6441, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, defamation
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly ruled in defamation claims stemming from statements made to the chief of the fire department at which plaintiff volunteered about plaintiff's prior arrest for impersonating an officer because plaintiff failed to demonstrate that information in the sheriff's department database, or statements made to his employer about his arrest, had been false. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-2229, Categories: employment, defamation
J. Tinsley grants the power management company's motion for judgment on the pleadings and motion to strike the former employee's first amended complaint of breach of contract for when the company terminated this employment for his alleged refusal to lie, and defamation when the company filed a police report accusing him of absconding with a company-issued laptop. Both the breach of contract and wrongful termination claims the former employee made in his original complaint and one for promissory estoppel he substituted in his first amended complaint are futile since he put a misplaced reliance on the company's code of conduct as "an express or definite promise to alter the at-will employment relationship."
Court: USDC Southern District of West Virginia, Judge: Tinsley, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv567, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, defamation, Contract
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J. Jackson grants the employer's motion to dismiss the employee's suit alleging that she was terminated for taking medical leave after her son was shot and that her supervisors defamed her. The employee, a pro se litigant, has failed to state any of her claims.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Jackson, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv2249, NOS: Family and Medical Leave Act - Labor, Categories: employment, defamation, employment Discrimination
J. Fallon denies a Texas-based alcoholic beverages distributor’s request to dismiss a negligence and defamation suit brought by a former driver. He alleges 16 months after he left the company, a lawyer for his ex-employer falsely informed a U.S. Department of Transportation website he refused to take a drug test. The allegations “just barely” support a defamation claim of reckless disregard for the truth.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Fallon, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 2:24cv304, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, Negligence, defamation
J. Strand grants Tyson Foods summary judgment in claims contending Tyson employees defamed a manager after an employee's tires had been found slashed a day following an altercation with the manager. Evidence indicated the manager had been the culprit, and a company email indicating he was no longer employed by Tyson did not constitute defamation.
Court: USDC Northern District of Iowa, Judge: Strand, Filed On: February 28, 2024, Case #: 6:22cv2004, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, defamation
J. Bryson allows plaintiff to continue defamation claims contending coworkers falsely stated up the chain of command that plaintiff "had relapsed, was fired, and had gone crazy," which constituted a plausibly defamatory statement.
Court: USDC Delaware, Judge: Bryson, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv148, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, defamation
J. Boyle grants seven agents of a county government their motion to dismiss allegations of emotional distress, defamation and discrimination brought by a register of deeds. Specifically, she claims the county did not assign to her the best assistant and that it has discriminated against her in some way. However, she has not provided enough information for her claim to survive and she has failed to respond to the county’s motion.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: February 12, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv520, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, defamation, employment Discrimination
J. Cole denies the city's motion to dismiss, ruling the position of the fire chief is a public employment position for which the employee can only be fired for cause, which creates a property interest protected by due process and allows the former chief to bring his due process claims. Furthermore, because the termination letter published by the city was written as a formal way to inform the public of its decision, statements about the chief's workplace culture and possible misconduct are "falsifiable statements of fact" that allow the chief's defamation claim to proceed.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Cole, Filed On: February 7, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv230, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, defamation, Due Process
J. Brnovich rules a baking ingredients company may pursue defamation claims against a former employee. The baking ingredients company sufficiently showed in court that the former employee, a senior buyer, defamed the company by publishing false online information concerning its customers and its confidential business information.
Court: USDC Arizona, Judge: Brnovich, Filed On: January 12, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2674, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Trademark, defamation, employment Retaliation
J. Winkler finds the lower court erroneously denied the motion for summary judgment filed by the disability services board and its members. The CFO of the company who received waiver benefits from the board had no contract with the board, did not own the building he used in conjunction with the benefits waiver and used a personal vehicle for work, all of which rendered him an independent contractor, not an employee. Reversed.
Court: Ohio Court Of Appeals, Judge: Winkler, Filed On: January 12, 2024, Case #: 2024-Ohio-83, Categories: Immunity, defamation, employment Retaliation
J. Winmill grants the government's motion to dismiss employees' allegations of defamation after they were accused of creating a hostile work environment and harassment of a coworker. The employees resigned after an investigation into the coworker's complaints resulted in notices of removal. The employees who conducted the investigation were acting within the scope of their employment, therefore the United States is substituted as the proper defendant. However, these claims may not be brought against the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act and the court does not have subject matter jurisdiction over the claims.
Court: USDC Idaho, Judge: Winmill, Filed On: January 10, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv356, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, defamation, Contract
J. Zahn finds that the trial court properly granted summary judgment to employers accused of having their store manager falsely arrested. The manager failed to show the employers had knowingly made a false statement to police, or that they were malicious when accusing him of grand theft. Also, he was an at-will employee so there was no breach of an enforceable employment contract. Affirmed.
Court: Idaho Supreme Court, Judge: Zahn, Filed On: December 19, 2023, Case #: 49535-2022, Categories: employment, defamation
J. Childs upholds the district court's dismissal of a former FBI agent’s due process claims arising from his termination, which occurred following an investigation into his mishandling of allegations of molestation against USA Gymnastics doctor Lawrence Gerard Nassar. The agent fails to adequately plead a deprivation of a liberty or property interest without due process, and also does not show he suffered defamation in connection with his termination. Affirmed.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Childs, Filed On: December 12, 2023, Case #: 22-5264 , Categories: employment, defamation, Due Process
J. Hollander grants a marketing company’s motion to reopen discovery to conduct a deposition of a former employee in this employment dispute of the severance agreement being forged. The company alleges good cause to conduct the deposition due to the fact that the former employee had the opportunity to depose the company’s chief executive officer. The former employee’s motion for sanctions is denied.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Hollander, Filed On: December 1, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv309, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: employment, defamation, Discovery
J. Gallagher grants a transport company’s motion to dismiss this amended complaint in this lawsuit brought by a former employee alleging negligence, defamation, constructive fraud and false light invasion of privacy based on the company’s drug testing procedures. The employee was terminated after he took a drug test at a different facility than the employer sent him to. The former employee fails to show facts plausibly to establish of any duty to the alleged claims and this amended complaint is dismissed without prejudice.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Gallagher, Filed On: November 21, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv2334, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, defamation, Privacy
J. Ellis grants in part a group of employees from the University of Illinois Chicago motion to dismiss defamation and false light claims brought by a law professor alleging retaliation and compelled speech. The professor’s alleged racist statements fail to constitute speech of public concern, so his retaliation claim shall be dismissed. UIC employees therefore have qualified immunity on the compelled speech claims, so they are dismissed in their individual capacities. All other claims are dismissed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Ellis, Filed On: November 1, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv475, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Education, employment, defamation
J. Cook issues a writ of mandamus sought by a church assistant to dismiss defamation claims filed by a pastor against her for having informed his new church of rape allegations and writing a blog post about the incident . As the assistant resides in another state and does not have sufficient contacts with Alabama, the court lacks jurisdiction.
Court: Alabama Supreme Court, Judge: Cook, Filed On: October 13, 2023, Case #: SC-2023-0062, Categories: employment, defamation, Jurisdiction
J. Stewart finds the trial court properly granted summary judgment to an oncology office against defamation claims filed by their fired employees who state an anonymously submitted letter accusing them of unethical behavior should not have been disbursed to the other employees. The former employees failed to establish the publication element of the defamation claim. Affirmed.
Court: Alabama Supreme Court, Judge: Stewart, Filed On: October 13, 2023, Case #: SC-2022-0907, Categories: employment, Evidence, defamation
J. Breyer allows a single claim to continue against the Loma Prieta Joint Union School District from a former 6th grade teacher after he was let go for unprofessional conduct following a string of incidents with the school, including a time in which he allowed a minor student to take a sip of alcohol. All of his First Amendment arguments lack merit and claims against individuals that he said were responsible for him losing his job fail because they had nothing to do with the decision. Just a single defamation-related claim is allowed to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of California, Judge: Breyer, Filed On: September 8, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv949, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, defamation, First Amendment
J. Adams grants an individual to file an amended complaint regarding allegations of a hostile shopping environment, defamation and discrimination against a convenience store’s employee. The individual must comply with the Federal Rule of Civil Procedures when laying the complaint out; if he no longer wishes to file the amendment, he must file notice informing the court.
Court: USDC Middle District of Alabama, Judge: Adams, Filed On: September 8, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv192, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: defamation, Due Process, employment Discrimination
J. Pallmeyer partially grants Naperville’s motion to dismiss a number of civil rights claims brought by one of its former police officers. The former cop says he was defamed and eventually fired in retaliation for questioning the legality of a Naperville police policy which required officers to make at least two traffic stops a day. Naperville says that because the former officer was still in his probationary period when he was fired, he was not due any notice or hearing beforehand. The court decides to dismiss the former cop’s supervisory liability and administrative review claims, but allows his defamation and due process claims to survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Pallmeyer, Filed On: August 22, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv6635, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, defamation, employment Retaliation
J. Newman denies in part the hospital's motion to dismiss, ruling that it is not entitled to immunity on defamation claims brought by the doctor because both the false statements about the doctor's performance and the eventual editing of the employment report to cover up those false statements are fraudulent activities that abrogate immunity granted under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act. However, because the doctor failed to exhaust all administrative remedies under the Act prior to filing suit, the request for an injunction must be dismissed until he complies with exhaustion requirements.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Newman, Filed On: August 4, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv341, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, Immunity, defamation
J. Gummer finds the trial court improperly ruled in favor of the state's assistant commissioner of health, who alleges he was fired after he made ethics complaints against the state police superintendent and was falsely accused by the governor of failing to disclose side consulting work. The governor's failure to conduct an investigation between the firing and a press conference addressing it says nothing about the statements made during the press conference. Reversed.
Court: New Jersey Appellate Division, Judge: Gummer , Filed On: August 2, 2023, Case #: A-3695-21, Categories: employment, defamation