People ask me what I do for a living. Occasionally, I want to reply that I write letters. A letter can be an art form because the writer needs to know just how far he can go without crossing the line. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Michigan looked at these limits on Jan. 21 in Bonds v. Philips Electronic North America.
The court set out the facts. The plaintiff was a longtime repairman for the defendant. He left to go to a competitor. His former employer fired off a letter to him with a cc to his new employer, reminding him that he should not use its confidential information. The letter was couched in terms of “concerns” about “potential disclosure.” It did not ask or intimate that the plaintiff should be fired. Well, he was, and he sued his former employer for tortious interference with his business relationship.
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