Hauser v. Urchisin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that common law immunity attaches \no matter how false or malicious or badly motivated a statement may be as long as the statements or actions fall within `the scope of duty' of the public official\
• “The public interest requires that statements made by officials of all branches of government in connection with their official duties be absolutely privileged.”
• “Any public servant should expect that those having authority to discharge him will explain their reasons for such dismissal.”
• immunity applied where city commissioner explained removal of the city prosecutor
• City Commissioner held to have absolute privilege against defamation liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).