Watson v. Kaminski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that letter alleging that prisoner was trying to extort money from appellants and that he was likely to be sued if he attempted to do so came within judicial privilege, even though no litigation was pending
• applying absolute privilege to attorney’s letter offering not to bring similarly situated parties’ claims against company in exchange for payment because letter contemplated suit if payment was not made
• applying absolute privilege to attorney’s letter offering not to bring similarly situated parties’ claims against company in exchange for payment because letter contemplated suit if payment was not made
• letter sent to third party concerning planned litigation was related to judicial proceeding and in furtherance of client’s representation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).