Berg v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that a trial court’s charge to the jury requiring malice was consistent with a conditional privilege
• determining that a trial court's charge to the jury requiring malice was consistent with a conditional privilege
• employer defamed plaintiff by forcing plaintiff to resign and then telling other workers that plaintiff was fired for stealing company property
• employer defamed plaintiff by forcing plaintiff to resign and then telling other workers that plaintiff was fired for stealing company property
• “An action for defamation is based on a violation of the fundamental right of an individual to enjoy a reputation unimpaired by false and defamatory attacks.”
• “Whether mere conduct alone, in absence of any verbal communication, would support a suit in slander is a question better left to a case involving precisely those facts. Suffice it to say that in view of our holding, it could be difficult to argue against it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).