Gonyea v. Motor Parts Federal Credit Union

How courts have described this case

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• summary discharge not actionable as a tort, even if it leads to understandable emotional distress
• “[A]n employer has a qualified privilege to divulge information regarding a former employee to a prospective employer.”
• a claimant must plead the elements of a defamation claim with specificity, including the allegedly defamatory words, the connection between the words and the plaintiff and their publication
• “These elements must be specifically pleaded, including the allegations with respect to the defamatory words, the connection between the plaintiff and the defamatory words, and the publication of the alleged defamatory words.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).