· 5/13/1986
Sherwood Webster v. Sun Company, Inc. Webster-Heise Corporation v. Sun Company, Inc.
Citations
- 790 F.2d 157
- 252 U.S. App. D.C. 335
- 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 24835
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “A witness is absolutely 22 privileged to publish defamatory matter as a part of a legislative proceeding in which he is 23 testifying or in communications preliminary to the proceeding, if the matter has some relation to 24 the proceeding.”
- applying District of Columbia law
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Judges: Wright, Edwards, Buckley
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