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- Title: Robertson v. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages
- Author : Supreme Court Of Utah
- Release Date : January 04, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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In this defamation suit, appellant Earlie Robertson appeals a judgment granted in favor of appellees Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc. (SWBYP), Kenneth Ray Smithee, and Terry John Walsh. Appellant presents four issues on appeal generally contending the trial court erred in granting appellees motions for summary judgment. For the following reasons, we affirm the trial courts judgment. Appellant Earlie Robertson sued her employer SWBYP, and fellow SWBYP employees Smithee and Walsh for slander and libel after a conversation between Smithee, Walsh and another SWBYP employee, Shelby Graf, was inadvertently recorded on another co-workers voicemail. The conversation was recorded when Smithee, Walsh, and Graf were driving to lunch and Walsh accidently hit redial on his cell phone. A transcript of the voicemail shows that Walsh was complaining to Smithee and Graf about his home telephone service with Southwestern Bell. Walsh then blamed Southwestern Bells poor stock performance generally on incompetent employees. The conversation took a disturbing turn when Smithee interrupted and stated that he had recently called to make changes to his home service, "got a hold of a white girl" who quickly dealt with his issue. Walsh then made a comment complaining about "quotas." The following then occurred: