Legal Opinion
Woodfield v. Providence Hospital
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 6, 2001No. 00-CV-1000PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELSON, Senior Judge:
Appellant Miriam Woodfield comes before us to appeal the trial court’s grant of the joint motion for summary judgment by Providence Hospital and Denice Easter-ling, appellees, in Woodfield’s defamation suit against them. Appellant contends that the trial court erred in ruling as a matter of law that she consented to the allegedly defamatory statements by her former supervisor and that Providence Hospital and Easterling did not act maliciously in making the statements. We affirm.
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Providence Hospital employed appellant Woodfield as a registered nurse for approximately…
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