Taggart v. Drake University

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that under two lines of authority, intra-university communications in question in that case either were never published or, if published, were protected by qualified privilege
• noting that universities possess nearly unfettered discretion when deciding to reappoint an untenured professor for another year of service
• finding threatening behavior by an individual with supervisory authority over the plaintiff a factor in the plaintiffs favor
• defining “actual malice” in the same way for purposes of determining whether the qualified privilege had been overcome
• dean’s yelling sexist and condescending comments at professor and accusing her of causing trouble, and otherwise verbally berating her, even if threatening, did not constitute outrageous conduct
• “Qualified privilege attaches to communications made (1) in good faith, (2) concerning a subject matter in which the speaker has an interest, right, duty, or obligation, and (3

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).