Rusheen v. Cohen

How courts have described this case

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

• holding protected activity 7 includes “communicative conduct such as the filing, funding, and prosecution of a 8 civil action”
• holding California’s litigation privilege precludes liability arising from noncommunicative acts that are necessarily related to enforcing a judgment
• explaining that “communications with some relation to judicial proceedings [are] absolutely immune from tort liability” under the California litigation privilege (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that “the privilege applies to any communication (1) made in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings; (2) by litigants or other participants authorized by law; (3) to achieve the objects of the litigation; and (4
• discussing abuse of process claim in the context of fraudulent declarations regarding service
• “The elements of 13 an action for civil conspiracy are (1) formation and operation of the conspiracy and (2) damage 14 resulting to plaintiff (3) from a wrongful act done in furtherance of the common design.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).