Legal Opinion
Burke v. Deiner
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided August 2, 1984PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, J.
The central issue in this appeal is whether municipal authority members have a qualified or an absolute privilege with respect to an allegedly defamatory resolution discharging the authority’s executive director. We hold the privilege is a qualified one but find that the privilege has not been lost here since the record will not sustain a finding by clear and convincing proof that the authority members knew or had reason to question that the matters contained in the resolution were false.
Plaintiff, Frederick Burke, was hired as the Executive…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Stump v. SparkmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by52 opinions
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