Identifying Information for Lawsuit Purposes and Liability for FHA Violations
Robert L. St. Claire III/Student ID 4268240
ITMG381 April 9th, 2014
American Military University
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION 2
Ch. 10) Courts could handle these cases, where the company’s complaints may, or may not rise to the level of actionable legal claim by taking each case into major consideration from the defamatory postings that are viewable by all employees within that place of employment. These cases are having a tremendous rise in the last decade due to economic crisis, and the pure nature of employees that are dissatisfied with their current positions. The company that’s being publicly humiliated by their current employees takes these events very serious, and with the use of pseudonym being used, it’s hard for the plaintiffs to figure out who is behind this debacle. “Courts are being asked whether they should authorize this expedited pre-service discovery to establish posters identities sufficiently such that they may be served with process in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure” (Reder & O’Brien, 2002, pg. 1). Courts have to establish more serious punishments for acts of stupidity that take place from employees and allow an override against privacy policies that might be enacted within a corporation, to find out who it is that’s solemnly responsible for the negative comments being advertised. “In order to silence their employee and investor critics, corporations have filed lawsuits under a variety of legal theories including defamation, trademark infringement, and breach of confidentiality agreements and trade secrets, and tortious interference with contractual relations. The theory most commonly used is defamation” (Reder & O’Brien, 2002, pg. 1). This process will just eliminate certain criteria aimed at constitutionally protected speech, and announce
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