City of Long Beach v. Bozek

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the right to petition insulates private litigants from retaliatory malicious prosecution actions by the government
• filing suit against the government is absolutely privileged form of petitioning and therefore government may not bring malicious prosecution action against unsuccessful plaintiff
• government entities may not maintain actions for malicious prosecution against those who have sued them unsuccessfully
• prior opinion reiterated in its entirety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).