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· 5/22/1997

Myers v. Pickering Firm, Inc.

Citations

  • 959 S.W.2d 152
  • 1997 Tenn. App. LEXIS 356
  • 1997 WL 269468

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the litigation privilege applies -11- to a procurement or inducement of breach of a contract when the claim is “based on [] false and defamatory statements” made “in the course of judicial proceedings”
  • “the publication of the defamatory material . . . made to separate entities . . . establishes the element of publication”
  • “The issue is whether the record contains any material evidence of impairment of reputation and standing in the community, personal humiliation, or mental anguish and suffering.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Crawford, Western, Farmer, Tomlin

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