wow, in the OP of that tweet chain, Shane retweeted someone linking an article with a
really terrible legal analysis. I'd even say that it outright misinterprets the ruling, because they claim that it hinges on whether the information was "truth."
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Truth was not the primary fact on which the defense was made,
at all. Actually, the defense was successful on its argument that tortious interference with contract
can only occur when a "stranger" interferes with a contract - an outside party - and there was no outside party. There was the employer, a hospital, and there was a contractor who the hospital hired to advise it on staff performance, making him an agent. The hospital consists of its agents, and one agent advising other agents to fire an employee cannot, by definition, be tortious interference. Because he was acting
as its agent, he
was the hospital, and
it cannot tortiously interfere with its own contract.
(2017-14-1033.pdf)
The only way that he could've
not been acting as the hospital's agent would have been if his actions had been so blatantly
against the hospital's best interest that it was obvious that he was acting in his
personal interests. And about the only way that he could've possibly acted in his own personal interests and against the hospital's best interest would have been by
lying to them - giving them false recommendations to fire a good employee. So, truth
did become a factor in the defense, but it was a secondary factor, not the primary one.
Also, Nick has addressed it:
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