Walsh v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[t]he burden of proving an abuse of the qualified privilege . . . rests upon the plaintiff”
• “[e]vidence that [the defamer] did not believe the statements he made about the plaintiff would tend to show that the privilege was abused”
• “a former employer has a qualified privilege to make defamatory communications about the character or conduct of his employees to present or prospective employers”
• Pennsylvania common-law action for wrongful termination based on violation of public policy is not precluded by 29 U.S.C. § 660 [c]
• plaintiff cannot maintain cause of action for wrongful discharge where alleged retaliatory nature of defendant’s conduct falls within remedies afforded plaintiff under OSHA
• “[E]mployers should not be allowed to discharge employees solely for complaining about safety problems.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).