John J. Heffernan v. Robert W. Hunter, Prisoner Cv9408 Bochetto & Lentz, P.C. George Bochetto, Esq

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• holding that conspiracy claims against an attorney and client failed where the allegations were that the attorney, acting on behalf of the client in defense of SEC charges, launched an unlawful publicity campaign against the plaintiff.
• holding that filing of a frivolous lawsuit and dissemination of defamatory information may “violate the canons of ethics, but so long as it is within the scope of representation, it does not eliminate the exemption from a conspiracy charge under section 1985”
• noting that the intra-corporate conspiracy doctrine, which bars allegations of conspiracy between employees and within the same organization, “has also been carried over to alleged conspiracies involving governmental entities”
• agreeing with Brever that a witness or juror may bring a claim under section 1985(2)
• rejecting conspiracy claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1985, which sought to hold an attorney and client liable for conspiring to intimidate a plaintiff from serving as a witness in federal court
• noting an exception to the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine exists where “the employees have acted for their sole personal benefit and thus outside the course and scope of their employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).