Austin v. Inet Technologies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that employee’s argument that her reasons for termination were false negated her self- defamation claim as a matter of law
• noting this Court has not recognized the claim and declining to decide the issue because an element of the claim was negated
• “The truth of the statement in the publication on which an action for libel is based is a defense to the action.”
• “Slander is a false oral statement that is published to a third person without a legal excuse, which refers to an ascertainable person.”
• evidence “could have been readily controverted” if it is “of a nature which can be effectively countered by opposing evidence”
• statements made to supervisors and HR in the course of investigating insubordination incident were privileged

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).