Diamond Fortress Technologies, Inc. v. EverID, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming dismissal of chapter 93A claim and other state law claims based on litigation privilege
• explaining privilege applies even if “offensive statements are uttered maliciously or in bad faith”
• letter in which firm threatened to bring law suit against plaintiff protected by absolute privilege could not form basis of liability on any theory
• “the disciplinary rules provide standards of professional conduct of attorneys and do not in and of themselves create independent causes of action”
• privilege protects against invasion of privacy and violations of Civil Rights Act and G. L. c. 93A
• attorney furnished with case law demonstrating that no cause of action existed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).