United States v. Joseph Sanfilippo

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• stating that in California Motor Transport Co., the Supreme Court “explained the [Noerr ] decision as resting squarely on the constitutionally guaranteed right to petition the government”
• \ Noerr-Pennington does not necessarily and absolutely preclude liability for damages resulting from defamatory statements made in the course of petitioning the government.\
• “We believe extending absolute immunity to all communications made in the course of petitioning the government, whether or not such communications were made in the confines of an actual proceeding, is unwarranted by the Noerr-Pennington doctrine and also unwise.”

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