Use This Fact Situation to Answer the Related Questions That

question 44

Multiple Choice

Use this fact situation to answer the related questions that follow. John was recently fired from a large company located in Toronto,Ontario,which does business over the Internet.After being fired,John moved to New York City,U.S.A. ,and then set up a blog in which he maligned his former employer and its business practices.When the company read the blog,it decided to sue John and the Internet Service provider (ISP) over which John's blog was carried.
In this case,the company will probably succeed against John in an action for

• A)the tort of defamation.
• B)a breach of the confidentiality provisions of John's employment contract.
• C)the tort of negligent misrepresentation.
• D)the tort of fraud.
• E)misrepresentation in contract.

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