Kathleen Lifton v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Arne Duncan, and William Meuer

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• holding that Illinois law requires that an allegedly defamatory statement must contain an objectively verifiable factual assertion
• explaining that constructive discharge for due process purposes is “limited to egregious cases” and “occurs when an employee resigns because working conditions are so intolerable that a reasonable employee would feel compelled to quit”
• explaining that constructive discharge for due process purposes is “limited to egregious cases” and “occurs when an employee resigns because work‐ ing conditions are so intolerable that a reasonable employee would feel compelled to quit”
• noting courts’ reluctance, in context of public employment, to find adverse effect on exercise of rights as a result of “criticism, false accusations, or verbal reprimands”
• noting courts’ reluctance, in context of public employment, to find adverse effect on exercise of rights as a result of “criticism, false accusations, or verbal reprimands”
• affirming summary judgment against a teacher who sued her school’s principal for defamation after he called her “lazy,” and said that she “doesn’t want to work,” because those statements are not objectively verifiable

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