Legal Opinion
Connolly v. Stone
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 15, 2002No. 01-CA-929PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
| ¡.EDWARDS, Judge.
Plaintiff/ Appellant, James Connolly, appeals from the trial court’s ruling which granted defendant, Robert Stone’s, Exception of No Cause of Action in a suit for defamation. Connolly asserts that the trial court erred in three ways: 1) By granting the exception as a matter of law; 2) By finding that communications made by Stone were subject to an absolute immunity from claims for defamation, and; 3) In finding, based on the plaintiffs petition, that a letter written about Connolly by Stone served as Stone’s testimony at a hearing before the Jefferson Parish Board *980of…
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