Mrs. Baines, a high school science teacher, announces to her class of twenty-five students that Principal Holmes, the school's principal, "did some jail time for illegal drug use" before he became an educational administrator. If the statement is false, what tort(s) might Mrs. Baines have committed? If the statement is true, what tort(s) might Mrs. Baines have committed?
What will be an ideal response?
If the statement is false, Mrs. Baines may have committed defamation (slander, because the statement was oral) and an invasion of privacy tort such as false light or public disclosure of private facts. If the statement is true, it is not defamation. It may still be an invasion of privacy, such as public disclosure of private facts; it might not be false light if the impression made is an accurate one.
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What will be an ideal response?
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