United States ex rel. Maust v. O'Grady

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• finding that evidence that two police departments communicated was insufficient to show agreement between departments and/or individual officers and granting summary judgment
• “[A]n application for a criminal complaint is generally considered as involving a form of judicial proceeding and the statements made therein are absolutely privileged.”
• “[I]t is well settled that statements made in the course of judicial proceedings which pertain to those proceedings are absolutely privileged and cannot form the basis for a defamation claim, even if uttered with malice or in bad faith.” (quotation omitted)
• “Police officers acting pursuant to a search warrant are public employees acting within the scope of their employment.” (citing Sadlowski v. Benoit, No. 9801859, 2008 WL 2745157, at (Mass. Super. Ct. June 26, 2008), aff’d, 917 N.E.2d 260 (Mass. App. Ct. 2009

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