Hartman v. Buerger

How courts have described this case

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• applying absolute privilege to defamatory telegram of county sheriff responding to character check as part of town board tavern licensing process
• applying absolute privilege to defamatory telegram of county sheriff responding to character check as part of town board tavern licensing process
• referring to such considerations but acknowledging disapproval of the word \malice\
• referring to such considerations but acknowledging disapproval of the word \malice\
• character information given by a police officer to a liquor licensing authority at its request
• communications made in judicial or quasi-judicial process are absolutely privileged and not defamatory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).