Roger Asay v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• cautioning that absolute immunity should not be “lightly conferred” as to preliminary statements
• holding litigation privilege did not protect party who provided copy of complaint to newspaper
• finding, under Iowa law, that absolute litigation privilege did not extend to dissemination of a complaint to news services
• finding, under Iowa law, that absolute litigation privilege did not extend to dissemination of a complaint to news services
• requiring a plaintiff to plead a defamatory statement with specificity to allow a defendant to 23 “evaluate the possibility of a privilege.”
• “A case-by-case evaluation must be made to determine whether the publication fits within the . . . privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).