Correllas v. Viveiros

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• taking account of concerns about the employee’s “responsiveness to clients,” “collegiality,” and “human relations skills”
• “It is well established that a person need not swear out a criminal complaint in order to be held answerable for malicious prosecution.”
• “Statements made in the course of a judicial proceeding which pertain to that proceeding are, of course, absolutely privileged and cannot support a claim of defamation, even if uttered with malice or in bad faith”
• “The mere transmission of information to a police officer, who using his or her independent judgment, then pursues the matter and institutes criminal proceedings, has never been held sufficient to support an action for malicious prosecution.”
• “An absolute privilege is favored because any final judgment may depend largely on the testimony of the party or witness, and full disclosure, in the interests of justice, should not be hampered by fear of an action for defamation”
• applying privilege in claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).