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Saturday, October 24, 2026

Case: Individual Employment Rights/Defamation (SDNY) - Bloomberg Law

A federal court in New York ruled that a Brazilian immigrant may go forward with her defamation and intentional infliction of distress claims against a Chelsea, Manhattan family whose young children she cared for as a nanny. The former nanny alleged that her employer intentionally made false accusations about her in Facebook posts to two local mothers’ groups in order to prevent other families in their neighborhood from hiring her. Her former employers’ posts implied that they knew she was a stalker and harasser to a criminal level, so the nanny plausibly alleged defamation under New York law, the court ...

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