Seelig v. Harvard Cooperative Society

How courts have described this case

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• holding that pertinent statements made in the course of judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged in action alleging slander and libel
• holding that pertinent statements made in the course of judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged in action alleging slander and libel
• finding of want of probable cause is a sufficient basis from which to infer malice
• store initiated investigation which led to criminal complaint against plaintiff
• statements by police officers in course of investigation conditionally privileged
• “Probable cause is a state of mind. A corporation has no mind. While it can be responsible for . . . tortious acts . . . committed by an employee, the requisite state of mind must necessarily be that of the employee”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).