Elder v. Cardoso

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he existence of a conditional privilege is not the legal equivalent of the non-existence of actionable publication.”
• \[T]he existence of a conditional privilege is not the legal equivalent of the non-existence of actionable publication.\
• no viable claim for slander where appellees expressed opinion as to appellant’s professional abilities and “merely attempted to ‘dissuade’ or ‘discourage’ their patients” from selecting appellant
• in action for slander, doctor “either did or did not attend deliveries” or “was or was not available when babies were sick”; such statements are capable of being proved true or false
• statement by doctor to four patients was published

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).