Legal issues for HR professionals: Reference checking/background investigations

Public Personnel Management

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-89

  Woska, William J ^a  

^a Woska Associates Employment Law Group   (United States)

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EID: 34147215455     PISSN: 00910260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009102600703600106     Document Type: Review

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1. Rest.2d Torts, Sec. 314 et seq.
2. Civil Code Sec. 47(c) (West Supp. 2002).
3. Hersh, Philip. "USOC Head Resigns Post; Resume Errors Costly." Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2002.
4. Fountain, John W. & Wong, Edward. "Notre Dame Coach Resigns After 5 Days and a Few Lies." New York Times, 15 December 2001, A1.
5. "Boxer Aide to be Fired Over Gun Incident." San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 1993, A19.
6. "Personnel Practices: Background Investigations," International Personnel Management Association, The Center for Personnel Research Series, January 1997.
7. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 85 S. Ct. 1678 (1965).
8. O'Connor v. Ortega, 480 U.S. 709, 107 S. Ct. 1492 (1987).
9. National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, 109 S. Ct 1384 (1989).
10. Government Code Sec. 12900 et seq.
11. California State Constitution, Article I, Sec.1.
12. Harmon v. Thornburgh, 928 F.2d 484 (D.C. Cir. 1989);
13. Willner v. Thronburgh, 928 F.2d 1185 (D.C. Cir. 1991);
14. th 846 (1997).
15. 29 U.S.C. 651; California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Sec. 3203.
16. O'Connor v. Ortega, op. cit, pp. 709, 1492.
17. Doyle v. State Bar of California, 32 Cal.3d 12, 20 (1982).
18. th Cir. (1995).
19. nd Ed., p. 139, The Bureau of National Affairs (1989).
20. Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971); 91 S.Ct. 849 (1971).
21. Ibid., p. 431.
22. Ibid., p. 433.
23. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000e-2(k)(1)(A)(i).
24. th Cir. 1983).
25. Government Code Sec. 12940 (f)(2) (West Supp. 2002).
26. Civil Code Sec. 47(c)(3) (West Supp. 2002).
27. McKinney v. County of Santa Clara, 10 Cal.App.3d 787 (1980).
28. Live Oak Publishing Co. v. Cohagan, 234 Cal.App.3d 1277, 1287 (1991).
29. McKinney, 110 Cal.App.3d @ 795;
30. Churchey v. Adolph Coors Co., 759 P2d 1336, 1344-45 (1988).
31. Bander v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 47 N.E.2d 595 (1943).
32. Grist v. Upjohn Company, 168 N.W2d 389 (1969);
33. Bretz v. Mayor, 203 N.E.2d 665 (1963).
34. Ponticas v. K.M.D. Investments, 331 N.W2d 907, 913 (1983).
35. 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.
36. Civil Code Sec. 1786 et seq.
37. California Assembly Bills Nos. 1068, 2868, enacted effective September 28, 2002 as clarification to Civil Code Sec. 1786 et seq.
38. Civil Code Sec. 1786.2(c) (West Supp. 2002).
39. Civil Code Sec. 1786 et seq.
40. Garcia v. Duffy, 492 So.2d 435 (1986).
41. Woska, William J. "Negligent Employment Practices," Labor Law Journal, p. 603, (September 1991): Commerce Clearing House, Inc.
42. Rest.2d Agency, Sec. 213.
43. Ponticas, 331 N.W2d 910 (1983).
44. Tallahassee Furniture Company, Inc. v. Harrison, 583 So. 2d 744 (Fla. App. 1991).
45. th Ed., (West Educational Publishing Co., 1998) p. 570.
46. Harvey Freeman & Sons, Inc. v. Stanley, 378 S.E.2d 907 (1989).