Salo v. Tyler

Associate Chief Justice Lee, opinion of the Court:

¶ 1 In 2011 David Salo was fired from Amgen, Inc., where he worked as a pharmaceutical representative. Salo later filed claims for defamation and interference with economic relations, asserting that three administrators at the University of Utah Hospital pharmacy-Linda Tyler, Kavish Choudhary, and John Vu-defamed him and caused him to lose his job. The district court dismissed these claims on summary judgment. We affirm.

¶ 2 In so doing we first clarify the operative summary judgment standard under rule 56 of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure.…