Swede v. Passaic Daily News

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the privilege as set forth in § 611 of the Restatement (First) of Torts
• noting defamation actions promote \the important public policy that individuals should generally be free to enjoy their reputations unimpaired by false and defamatory attacks\
• noting defamation actions promote “the important public policy that individuals should generally be free to enjoy their reputations unimpaired by false and defamatory attacks”
• “The law of defamation embodies the important public policy that individuals should generally be free to enjoy their reputations unimpaired by false and defamatory attacks.”
• newspapers enjoy qualified privilege to report on public proceedings
• newspapers conditionally privileged to report on public proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).