Brewer v. Second Baptist Church

How courts have described this case

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• noting that common interest of church members ordinarily would give rise to qualified privilege for communication between members on church matters, but holding that plaintiff had provided evidence of malice
• “A plaintiff is entitled to such 3 damages only after the jury, in the exercise of its untrammeled discretion, has made 4 the award.”
• “The issue of exemplary damages is separate and distinct 25 from that of actual damages, for they are assessed to punish the defendant and not to 26 compensate for any loss suffered by the plaintiff.”

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