Munsell v. Ideal Food Stores

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an employer who forwarded a coerced \confession\ of theft by employee to the employee's union was liable for compelled self-defamation
• holding that claims for invasion of right of privacy and for libel and slander arose from the same alleged wrongful act on the part of the defendant
• holding that an employer who forwarded a coerced “confession” of theft by employee to the employee’s union was liable for compelled self-defamation
• a plaintiff cannot recover for defamation where the defamation is deemed to be the result of his own voluntary act
• “trial court erred in submitting only one general verdict to the jury allowing it to return one verdict determining damages in a lump sum under all four counts of plaintiff s petition.”
• explaining difference between absolute and qualified privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).