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Martirano v. Frost

Citations

  • 25 N.Y.2d 505
  • 255 N.E.2d 693
  • 307 N.Y.S.2d 425
  • 1969 N.Y. LEXIS 924

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[A] statement, made in open court in the course of a judicial proceeding, is absolutely privileged if, by any view or under any circumstances, it may be considered pertinent to the litigation.”
  • “[A] statement, made in open court in the course of a judicial proceeding, is absolutely privileged if, by any view or under any circumstances, it may be considered pertinent to the litigation.”
  • “a statement made . . . in the course of a judicial proceeding is absolutely privileged if, by any view or under any circumstances, it may be considered pertinent to the litigation.”
  • a courtroom statement is absolutely privileged unless it is “so outrageously out of context as to permit one to conclude, from the mere fact that the statement was uttered, that it was motivated by no other desire than to defame”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Burke, Fuld

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Cites

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