Kennedy v. Sheriff of East Baton Rouge

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the conditional privilege applied and affirming a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant on that basis
• observing that the “failure to investigate does not present a jury question on whether a statement was published with reckless disregard for the truth” when the suspicions of those making the report to the police are not arbitrary
• “When words are defamatory per se, malice as well as injury are presumed, but may be rebutted by the defendant.”
• defendant confirmed the existence of the conditional privilege when its employees reported the possible commission of a crime to police
• “When words are defamatory per se, malice as well as injury are presumed, but may be rebutted by the defendant.”
• “The tort of false imprisonment consists of the following two essential elements: (1) detention of the person; and (2) the unlawfulness of the detention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).