Fired employee can’t recover from co-workers

The fired deputy director of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin cannot recover damages from co-workers who he claimed tortiously interfered with his at-will employment, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.  The statements they made during consideration of the deputy director’s status were substantially true, it said.

Interpreting what it believed state courts would hold, the Court said the employee could not collect when the statements were substantially true, “no matter the motives underlying those statements.”