Pledger v. Burnup & Sims, Inc.

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• explaining that, although a defamation action cannot be instituted based on “statements made in the course of a judicial proceeding,” a party may still be able to seek redress “by an action in malicious prosecution”
• further explaining that an injured party could overcome a qualified privilege by proving express malice or malice in fact
• declining to extend absolute immunity to pre-litigation settlement efforts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).