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

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Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mollan v. Lindner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-18· cited 85×
• Durham v. McElynn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-21· cited 52×
• McKibben v. Schmotzer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-11· cited 30×
• Morley v. Gory
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 17×
• Mosley v. Observer Publishing Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-03· cited 10×
• Wishnefsky v. Addy
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1997-07-11· cited 5×
• Mosley v. Pollock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-06· cited 4×
• Rowe v. Rowe
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2025-07-23· cited 1×
• FOP Lodge No. 5 v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-11-09
• Schrank v. Borough of Moosic
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-02-07
• Wolfe v. Glenn
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 2001-01-19
• Greene v. Street
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-08-05
• Keahey v. Keahey
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2014-11-10

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barr v. Matteo
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-29· cited 1,312×
• Gregoire v. Biddle
  Second Circuit· 1949-10-24· cited 876×
• Schott v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-11-28· cited 226×
• Hoffman v. Misericordia Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 199×
• County of Allegheny v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-29· cited 187×
• Firing v. Kephart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 171×
• Binder v. Triangle Publications, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 141×
• Bloom v. DuBois Regional Medical Center
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-27· cited 93×
• Botwinick v. Credit Exchange, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-09-29· cited 76×
• Rufo v. the Bastian-Blessing Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-16· cited 69×
• McCORMICK v. Specter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-23· cited 38×
• Packler v. State Employes' Retirement Board
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 25×
• Passon v. Spritzer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-02· cited 7×

Other cases named Mosley v. Observer Publishing Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Mosley v. Observer Publishing Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-03· cited 10×