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Who among the following has committed the tort of libel?

Generally, employment actions by private employers do not trigger constitutional protections because the Constitution is designed to curb government excesses.

Mary is an employee of Elephant Co., Inc. She uses her office computer to check her personal email. Mary opens one of her emails to find a link to a joke with a pornographic picture embedded in the message. Mary is called into her supervisor’s office and reprimanded for violating the company’s policy against accessing pornography. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true in this scenario?

Mary, the chief administrator in charge of medical records at Collin County Hospital, receives a request for copies of Bob’s medical records from Bob’s employer. Mary releases them without Bob’s approval. Which of the following is most likely to be true in this case?

Federal minimum wage law supersedes state minimum wage laws where the federal minimum wage is greater than the state minimum wage.

In Texas, an employer is privileged to make statements, even if otherwise defamatory, where the statement is made in good faith by one who has a legitimate business purpose in making the communication to one who has a business interest in learning the information.

Fiduciary standards established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) require a fiduciary to exercise the care and judgment that a prudent person would exercise pursuing similar objectives under the same circumstances.

Bob has been working as a salesman at Dolphin Pools, a company with 55 employees for the past five years. He becomes the legal guardian of his six-year-old nephew after his sister and her husband die in a car crash. He informs his supervisor that he would need the next couple of weeks off to arrange for his nephew’s care. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Dolphin Pools:

Wildcat strikes are illegal if they _____.

An accommodation is reasonable up to the point that it becomes an undue hardship, which is a universal standard; in other words, what is a reasonable accommodation of a particular disability for company A would also be a reasonable accommodation for company B.