Marchesi v. Franchino

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defamatory statements by an employee to a manager about another employee could be protected by conditional privilege
• adopting the New York Times standard of malice to defeat claims of a conditional privilege defense in cases of private defamation
• adopting the New York Times standard of malice to defeat claims of a conditional privilege defense in cases of private defamation
• referring to Comment, The Maryland Court of Appeals: State Defamation Law in the Wake of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. 36 Md. L.Rev. 622, 647 n. 161 (1977)
• knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for truth is the standard of malice required to defeat the defense of conditional privilege
• “actual malice” to defeat Maryland privilege is the same as “actual malice” to defeat First Amendment privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).