Schauer v. Memorial Care Systems

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• holding that mere surmise or suspicion of malice does not carry the probative force necessary to form the basis of a legal inference of malice
• holding that mere surmise or suspicion of malice does not carry the probative force necessary to form the basis of a legal inference of malice
• holding that mere surmise or suspicion of malice does not carry the probative force necessary to form the basis of a legal inference of malice
• “To determine if a publication is defamatory, the court must look at the entire communication and not examine separate sentences or portions.”
• court held qualified privilege existed because employee's performance report was reviewed by supervisors and \was [not] published to anyone outside the hospital or anyone without a legitimate interest in its contents\
• defendants included hospital and one of its officers

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