Vickers v. Abbott Laboratories

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that courts must be extremely cautious in finding wrongful infliction of emotional distress in the workplace as all employees must tolerate petty annoyance
• affirming summary judgment because defendant’s policies only set forth general guidelines — not any contractual rights
• coercing the plaintiff into accepting a demotion and failing to conduct a good faith investigation into the allegations against him was not “extreme and outrageous”
• stating qualified privilege in the defamation context protects the victims, witnesses, and investigators of sexual harassment, and if no privilege existed, victims would be “handcuffed” by the fear of defamation liability
• “Proof of publication requires that the defamatory statements were communicated to some person other than the plaintiff”
• there is a “compelling interest” in “ridding workplaces of sexual harassment” that protects conditionally privileged statements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).