Legal Opinion
Hopkins v. O'CONNOR
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 3, 2007No. SC 17743PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KATZ, J.
The plaintiff, Eric T. Hopkins, brought the present action against the defendant, Michael J. O’Con-nor, a Madison police officer, in his individual capacity, alleging that the defendant, after causing the plaintiff to be transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, falsely and maliciously had defamed him in a police incident report and unreasonably had published private information about that incident to the plaintiffs coworkers. The defendant moved for summary judgment, claiming that he is entitled to absolute immunity from suit because the statements…
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