Barreca v. Nickolas

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that despite the plaintiff suffering “a great deal of humiliation, embarrassment, stress, and loss of sleep” due to the defendant’s allegedly outrageous conduct, the plaintiffs claims did not amount to severe or extreme emotional distress
• concluding that despite the plaintiff suffering “a great deal of humiliation, embarrassment, stress, and loss of sleep” due to the defendant’s allegedly outrageous conduct, the plaintiff’s claims did not amount to severe or extreme emotional distress
• finding that a city council member enjoyed a qualified privilege for statements made in the performance of his official duties
• noting that statements imputing certain indictable crimes or incompetence in occupation are defamatory per se
• stating that whether defamatory statements were published on a “privileged occasion” is “[generally ... for the judge”
• clarifying that the proper definition of “actual malice” in the context of defeating a “qualified privilege” is that the publisher “acted with knowing or reckless disregard of the truth of the statement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).