Michaels v. Berliner

Dickinson, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Andrew J. Michaels has appealed from an order of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas that granted defendants Alan F. Berliner and Carlile, Patchen & Murphy summary judgment. He argues that (1) the trial court’s conclusion that the doctrine of absolute privilege barred his defamation claim and its grant of summary judgment to defendants were based on facts that were unsupported by the record; (2) summary judgment could not have been properly entered on the basis of defendants’ alternative argument that a qualified privilege existed, because there were…