Labor/Employment
Sep. 12, 2003
Right to Terminate Doesn't Include Right to Defame
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In Rivera v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.(Amtrak) , 2003 DJDAR 16680 (9th Cir. Aug. 14, 2003) (amended opinion), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals demonstrated that simply because an employer has the right to terminate an employee does not mean that the employer and its employees have free license to defame that employee.
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