Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer’s investigation of an employee’s alleged merchandise theft was not extreme and outrageous conduct
• holding that a qualified privilege attached to communications made in the course of an investigation following a report of employee wrongdoing, and that proof of actual malice “defeats the privilege.”
• holding that an employer must conclusively establish absence of malice on summary judgment
• concluding qualified privilege extends to statements made to supervisors and fellow employees involving employee’s misconduct incident
• holding, for private-individual plaintiff against non-media defendant, falsity generally presumed and truth of statement is affirmative defense
• stating that truth of the alleged defamatory remarks is an affirmative defense in defamation suits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).