STC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lyft, Federal Trade Commission
27 Oct 2017
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Pr personnel must be aware they can be held legally liable if they provide advice or tacitly support an illegal activity of a client or employer. This area of liability is called conspiracy. Best recommendation is for org to come clean. Private citizens tend to have more success winning defamation suits than public. Gures or corporations: with public gures, there is an extra test of whether the libelous statements were actually made with malice, ex. Tom cruise settlement case with claims that he abandoned daughter. A person ling a defamation suit must prove that: the false statement was communicated to others, person is identi able, there was actual injury. Monday, october 23, 2017: statement was malicious or negligent. Avoiding defamation suits: opinion statements must be accompanied by facts, clearly label statements of opinion, review context of opinion for possible legal implications.
