Dyson v. City of Detroit

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting a general rule that “libelous matter in pleadings filed in judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged where the statements are material, pertinent or relevant to the issues therein”
• “[L]ibelous matter in pleadings filed in judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged where the statements are material, pertinent or relevant to the issues therein[.]”
• “[L]ibelous matter in pleadings filed in judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged where the statements are material, pertinent or relevant to the issues therein * * *.”
• libelous matters in pleadings are absolutely privileged when the statements are relevant to the issues of the ease, even if the allegations are false and malicious
• “statements made in judicial proceedings are privileged”
• libelous matter in pleadings absolutely privileged

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).