Patrick Catrone v. Thoroughbred Racing Associations of North America, Inc.

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• finding that even assuming defendant’s harbored ill will, plaintiff must establish that communications were motivated by “actual malice”
• explaining that the conditional privilege does not survive “an abuse of the privilege”
• summary judgment record “devoid of evidence that Catrone attempted, diligently or otherwise, to discover the defamatory statements contained in the 1974 special report or the 1978 newsletter”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).