O'CONNOR v. Burningham

How courts have described this case

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

• finding “little justification” to treat relationships in the familial setting different that those in a comparable “business world”
• addressing the “conditional privilege for family relationships,” the “conditional protection for communications that contain information relating to intra-family relationships,” and the “intra-family relationship privilege” under Section 597
• recognizing an employer-employee communications privilege to defamation
• “Public officials owe their status to the duties demanded by their official positions, not to the vagaries of events that may occur while they occupy these positions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).