Exam 3: Commonly Committed Workplace Torts

Defamation and slander are two kinds of libel.

In the United States v. Xi case, the charges stemmed from an alleged conspiracy to:

The common law will protect employers from employees who misappropriate trade secrets by allowing judges to issue injunctions and award damages.

Which is business defamation?

Define the tort of defamation.

Under which law is the context of tortious interference with contract extracted from?

Employers whose employees misappropriate trade secrets are entitled to obtain:

Which of the following applies to the protection of proprietary information by common law or state statute?

In the Sandoval v. DISA Global Solutions, Inc. case, a lab was accused of ___________ for reporting an employee's positive drug-test results to his employer.

Defamation through speech is known as:

A tort can be defined as a civil wrong.

In defamation per se, what does "per se" connote?

In the Duty v. Boys and Girls Club of Porter County , the plaintiff's claim succeeded because the alleged breach of contract was:

Third party must interfere for an improper reason, such as animosity toward the plaintiff, and not for a valid business reason, in order to be held responsible for the tort of:

Robert, a mid-level manager at Revive Corp., was falsely accused of sexual harassment. In the course of its investigation, the company questioned numerous co-workers about Robert, searched his office and computer files without his permission, and interviewed his neighbors. Although the investigation produced no evidence of Robert's guilt, he was fired since the company's president felt that the accusation was a poor reflection on the organization. If Robert sues Revive, his complaint will likely contain counts of:

One of the most commonly committed workplace torts is defamation.

How can a person be immune from a defamation suit if he is protected by qualified privilege?

The elements of retaliatory demotion are quite similar to:

The National Labor Relations Act preempts a requirement to submit the claim to binding arbitration, and sovereign immunity, where public employers are targeted.

How does the court recognize qualified privilege?