Zych v. Tucker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that only qualified, rather than absolute, privilege applied to a defamatory letter that an arrestee sent to the office of internal affairs (OIA
• holding that qualified privilege requires: “ ‘(1) good faith by the defendant in making the statement; (2) an interest or duty to uphold; (3) a statement limited in its scope to that purpose; (4) a proper occasion; and (5
• setting forth the powers that differentiate a quasi-judicial body from a body performing merely an administrative function
• setting forth the powers that differentiate a quasi- judicial body from a body performing merely an administrative function
• noting that although the Office of Internal Affairs (OIA
• “The class of occasions where defamatory statements are absolutely privileged is narrow and generally limited to legislative, judicial and some quasi- judicial proceedings.”

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