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Connecticut rules out ‘compelled self-publication’ defamation claims

March 3, 2004

SHRM Online - Society for Human Resource Management, Court Report - Cweklinsky v. Mobil Chemical Co., Conn., SC 16846, Jan. 6, 2004.

Lawrence Peikes


Connecticut’s Supreme Court has refused to recognize a claim for defamation based on an employee’s “self-publication” of a former employer’s allegedly defamatory explanation for a discharge decision.

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