Hackethal v. Weissbein

Opinion

NEWMAN, J.

— Plaintiff has appealed from judgments of dismissal in three consolidated actions after the trial court sustained demurrers, without leave to amend, on the ground that allegedly defamatory publications were immunized by these words of Civil Code section 47: “A privileged publication ... is one made . . . [i]n any (1) legislative or (2) judicial proceeding, or (3).in-any other official proceeding authorized by law . . . -”1 The parties agree that the privilege — if those words create it — would be' absolute, not qualified.

*58The issue here is whether a hearing before the…