CRIBERG v. Raymond

How courts have described this case

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• applying absolute privilege to statements sent to the plaintiffs bank and to the plaintiff that attorney made accusing the plaintiff of misconduct and threatening a lawsuit
• adopting construction of privilege as laid out in Restatement [Second] of Torts
• where communication to prospective defendant relates to proceeding contemplated in good faith, privilege should attach
• “statements by a party, counsel or witness in the institution of, or during the course of, a judicial proceeding are absolutely privileged provided that such statements relate to that proceeding”
• “[w]e have hitherto held that statements by a party ... in the institution of . . .a judicial proceeding are absolutely privileged provided such statements relate to that proceeding”
• “the privilege . . . attaches to statements made by an attorney ‘in the institution or conduct of litigation or in conferences and other communications preliminary to litigation’ ” [emphasis added]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).