Rioux v. Barry

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that absolute immunity bars defamation claims that arise from statements made in the course of judicial or quasi-judicial hearings
• refusing to provide “absolute immunity for the communications underlying the tort of vexatious litigation” because to do so “would effectively eliminate the tort”
• ‘‘whether and what form of immunity applies in any given case is a matter of policy that requires a balancing of interests’’
• “[W]hether and what form of immunity applies in any given case is a matter of policy that requires a balancing of interests.”
• “In Field, the court concluded that absolute immunity applied to a vexatious litigation claim. The holding of Field is inconsistent with the holding of this opinion.”
• “We consistently have held that absolute immunity bars defamation claims that arise from statements made in the course of judicial or quasi-judicial hearings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).