Isabel Otero v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, Clarence Craig, Joseph Papa, Jose Colon, Roy Boyd, Anita Wells, Earl Mellow

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• noting that an employee is entitled to an “explanation of the employer’s evidence”
• affirming summary dismissal of defamation claim because co-workers’ statements were “protected by qualified privilege for statements made, without any showing of bad faith or malice, in response to employer's investigation into a theft by a fellow employee”
• “[D]ue process does require that ... an employee be given ... an opportunity to present his side of the story.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).