Kendrick v. Fox Television

How courts have described this case

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

• it would invade executive function if courts were to decide whether statements of police officials about ongoing investigations were false and defamatory
• “The public interest requires that police officials be free to comment about ongoing police activity on matters of public concern.”
• the fact that plaintiff only claimed injury to reputation “cut[s] in favor of absolute immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).