Donohoe Construction Co. v. Mount Vernon Associates

How courts have described this case

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• holding that absolute privilege protected filing of mechanic’s lien because “it is a prerequisite to a suit to enforce”
• recognizing that “a cause of action for malicious prosecution will lie for the malicious institution of a groundless civil proceeding”
• finding that the filing of a memorandum of mechanic’s lien, which is a prerequisite to filing a lawsuit to enforce the lien, was a judicial proceeding entitled to absolute privilege
• “Public policy demands that within all reasonable limits a litigant should have the right to state his case as he sees fit.”
• “[T]he General Assembly enunciated a policy consideration that those furnishing labor and materials in construction should be paid or have recourse by lodging a lien against the property benefitted by their labor or material.”
• “[T]he General Assembly enunciated a policy consideration that those furnishing labor and materials in construction should be paid or have recourse by lodging a lien against the property benefitted by their labor or material.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).