Dexter's Hearthside Restaurant, Inc. v. Whitehall Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s conduct was at most a mistake
• stating that in order to survive summary judgment, a party must produce the requisite quantum of evidence to enable him to reach a jury with his claim
• granting summary judgment on defamation claim where the defendant demonstrated a conditional privilege to publish the material at issue and the summary judgment record contained no facts from which some ulterior motive could be inferred
• “[sjimple negligence, want of sound judgment, or hasty action will not cause loss of the privilege”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).