Myers v. Spohnholtz

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• holding no malice exists on defendants’ part when plaintiff fails to prove bad faith or improper motive
• pointing out that good faith as an element of a qualified privilege should not be confused with the actual or express malice which constitutes abuse of the privilege
• explaining malice exists, and subsequent abuse of qualified privilege occurs, if publisher does not believe defamatory statement is true or has no reasonable grounds for believing it is true
• union official’s letter recommending application for union membership be denied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).