Phyllis Meloff v. New York Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• finding statements made “in disciplinary memoranda evaluating plaintiffs performance” to be “protected by qualified privilege”
• “This ‘common interest’ privilege has been applied to communications within a firm concerning the actions of its employees”
• “A written statement that ‘charges a person with the commission of a crime’ or ‘tends to disparage a person in the way of his office profession or trade’ is libel per se.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).