Babcock v. Gifford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a credit reporting agency has a conditional privilege to publish defamatory matter, provided the publication is made in response to a request
• finding credit reports conditionally privileged since credit reporting agency is in the business of reporting financial information to subscribers who request such service
• finding credit reports conditionally privileged since a credit reporting agency is in the business of reporting financial information to subscribers who request such service
• verdict for plaintiff upheld where credit reporting agency issued false report that plaintiff had been indicted for adultery
• “Statements imputing the commission of an indictable offense are capable of defamatory meaning as a matter of law.”
• report stating that plaintiff had been indicted for adultery was libelous per se

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).