Brown v. Holifield

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• explaining that qualified privilege defenses are “not appropriate for resolution on a motion to dismiss” because “a claim of qualified privilege may be rebutted”
• “The affirmative privilege defenses are . . . not appropriate for resolution on a motion to dismiss.”
• statements accusing the plaintiff of having lied about her own prior allegations of sexual assault and sex trafficking
• “[T]here cannot be differing understandings of the same facts that justify diametrically opposed opinion as to whether Defendant was involved in Plaintiff’s abuse as Plaintiff has claimed.”
• \Failure to state the particular person or persons to whom the allegedly slanderous or libelous comments were made as well as the time and manner in which the publications were made warrants dismissal.\ (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).