Mosley v. Observer Publishing Co.

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• holding that district attorney’s defamatory remarks about plaintiff were closely related to his official duties and thus protected by the doctrine of absolute privilege
• concluding the alleged defamatory statements made within a search warrant did not lose their privileged status even if the warrant was “replete with ‘false’ statements[,]” holding that “once absolute privilege attaches, it may be neither lost nor destroyed.”
• granting preliminary objections because the district attorney was immune from defamation suit as a high public official
• County Attorney was high public official for purposes of absolute privilege
• County Attorney was high public official for purposes of absolute privilege
• County Attorney was high public official for purposes of absolute privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).