Sadly, both Thomas and his Second-Chance Law Firm got this one incorrect as well, choosing between (B) and (C) while the correct answer was (A).
Thomas is now 61-for-107 (58.1%) and needs to shake off this now four-question losing streak.
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IANAL either, but inviting it is easier to prove. Another factor is that it's the "abuse" part that's defamatory, not the "reports" part, and to use truth as a defense it's the abuse that they'd need to show was true
2019-01-24 01:49:15 +0000 UTC
Ok - IANAL, but none of this answers why (e) isn't correct, where (e) is "the truth is the best defense against defamation", and since, indeed, he was denied tenure because of *reports* of patient abuse, there was no defamation. Had the Dean responded that the tenure was denied because of abuse - rather than because of *reports* of abuse - then, sure, (a) as above. What's incorrect about this analysis?