Johnson v. Dirkswager

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state official was entitled to absolute privilege because he was “required by law,” ie., data privacy act, to disclose reason for termination of plaintiffs employment
• electing not to base the court’s decision on an issue that appellants did not raise or brief
• high-level agency official “has an absolute privilege, in the performance of . . . official duties, to communicate defamatory material”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).