Evicting tenant question

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Evicting tenant question- in the process of evicting a nightmare of a tenant, I do believe she is trying to find a new place as I got a call from another landlord but the process is taking too long so off to court we go. 

But that raises the question- if I am called by another landlord as a reference as part of their screening process am I legally obligated to tell the truth? If I lie and they accept this tenant based on my reference and she turns out to be a nightmare can they sue me? I want her gone (like LAST MONTH) but I want to make sure it’s not going to come back to haunt me later.