Charfauros v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Rhode Island law affords an absolute privilege to “certain communications in connection with judicial proceedings”
• stating that “certain communications in connection with judicial proceedings are immune from suit because they enjoy an absolute privilege”
• determining that statutorily required notice to town council was not subject to litigation privilege because communication was prerequisite to judicial proceeding and not part of a judicial proceeding itself
• defining malicious prosecution ‘as a suit for damages resulting from a prior criminal or civil legal proceeding that was instituted maliciously and without probable cause, and that terminated unsuccessfully for the plaintiff therein’ . . .
• defining malicious prosecution ‘‘as a suit for damages resulting from a prior criminal or civil legal proceeding that was instituted maliciously and without probable cause, and that terminated unsuccessfully for the plaintiff therein’’ (internal quota- tion marks omitted)
• despite proof of employment relationship, plaintiff failed to demonstrate existence of employment contract; therefore, claim for tortious interference with contractual relations failed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).