Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 9th Edition by Arnold Goldman ,William Sigismond

Exercise 14

Coleman, a salesperson for a security company, wanted to get even with Cloos, the superintendent of the West Ridge School District, for not purchasing burglar alarms for the school district from Coleman's company. Coleman wrote a letter to the board of education falsely accusing Cloos of having been arrested in a neighboring community for possession of drugs. She also wrote that Cloos paid the local politicians to keep the incident off the police records. On what grounds could Cloos sue Coleman?