Honesty’s the best policy.
At least, that’s what Juliette Blake-McIntosh apparently decided when she set out to find a new job after being fired from the legal department of Cadbury Beverages Inc. in October 1995.
Ah, the days when employers only had to worry about the information they give when someone calls with questions about an ex-employee's job history. Under the so-called "doctrine of compelled self-publication," plaintiffs now can build defamation cases against former employers based on allegedly false claims the plaintiffs themselves pass along to a third party. In Connecticut, the state Supreme Court may soon weigh in on the issue in an appeal that is pending before it.
July 07, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Honesty’s the best policy.
At least, that’s what Juliette Blake-McIntosh apparently decided when she set out to find a new job after being fired from the legal department of Cadbury Beverages Inc. in October 1995.
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