Jason C. Weldy v. Piedmont Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the discharge of an employee by a private airline was not a matter of public concern
• holding that the discharge of a non-public employee by a private airline is matter of private concern
• explaining that a court “cannot assess the weight of conflicting evidence, pass on the credibility of the witnesses, or substitute its judgment for that of the jury” (citation omitted)
• noting there are “four elements necessary to establish a prima facie case of slander: (1) an oral defamatory statement of fact, (2) regarding the plaintiff, (3) published to a third party by the defendant, and (4) injury to the plaintiff’
• discussing elements to establish prima facie claim of slander
• “[t]he nonmovant must be given the benefit of all reasonable inferences, because the trial court ‘cannot assess the weight of conflicting evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses, or substitute its judgment for that of the jury’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).