Vigoda v. Barton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[w]here the official believes the matter to be true and has not acted with actual malice or with reckless indifference to the rights of the individual citizen, his conditional privilege is not abused”
• letters defendant public official wrote to personal attorney and to assistant attorney general, copies of which were in plaintiff’s personnel file, properly excluded from evidence at trial “as confidential communications between lawyer and client”
• “Where the official believes the matter to be true ... and has not acted with actual malice ... or with reckless indifference to the rights of the individual citizen, his conditional privilege is not abused” [citations omitted]
• where a public official believes the matter to be true and has not acted with actual malice or with reckless indifference to the rights of the individual citizen, his conditional privilege is not abused
• same — superintendent of state hospital

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).