Rickenbach v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that pre-litigation demand letter seeking resolution of a dispute before filing suit is protected
• noting the litigation privilege ensures that “[s]tatements by attorneys, parties and their representatives made in the course of judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged and immune from liability.”
• noting the litigation privilege ensures that “[s]tatements by attorneys, parties and their representatives made in the course of judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged and immune from liability.”
• applying litigation privilege to various tort claims on a motion to dismiss
• “a review of the Amended Complaint, the preliminary statements, and the facts repeated herein reveal that liability attached long before any public hearing”
• “If the policy, which in defamation actions affords an absolute privilege or immunity to statements made in judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings, is really to mean anything then we must not permit its circumvention by affording an almost equally unrestricted action under a different label.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).