Rippett v. Bemis

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• a conditional privilege may arise in any situation in which an important interest of the recipient of a defamatory statement will be advanced by frank communication
• an investigation is a discretionary official act, but public statements concerning the results of an investigation are not
• if alleged defamatory statements are privileged, no recovery for emotional distress because recovery would undermine privilege
• “[Defamation] damages may include the elements of mental suffering, humiliation, embarrassment, effect on reputation and loss of social standing so far as they have been proved and may reasonably be presumed.”
• “A statement is defamatory ‘if it tends so to harm the reputation of another as to lower [her] in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with [her].’ ”
• “False accusations of criminal wrongdoing comprise defamation per se.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).