Hoover v. Van Stone

How courts have described this case

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

• extending application of the privilege to non-defamatory, yet similar, claims in order to combat artful pleadings designed to circumvent the privilege
• \[s]trict legal relevance need not be demonstrated; instead the allegedly defamatory statements must have only some connection to the subject matter of the pending action\
• communications seeking evidence from a broker’s other clients were privileged in fraud action against broker
• “the protection afforded by the privilege is absolute; so long as the statement is pertinent to, and made in the course of, a judicial proceeding, even a showing of malice will not divest the statement of its immune status”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).