Fridovich v. Fridovich

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “defamatory statements voluntarily made by private individuals to the police . . . prior to the institution of criminal charges are presumptively qualifiedly privileged” (footnote omitted)
• \[W]e emphasize that the privilege only applies to statements voluntarily made to the police or a prosecuting attorney and not to defamatory statements made to private individuals.\
• for summary of state laws

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