Bochetto v. Gibson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Justice NIGRO.

At issue in this appeal is whether an attorney is absolutely immune from liability on the basis of the judicial privilege when he faxes to a reporter a complaint that he has previously filed. For the reasons that follow, we hold that the judicial privilege does not protect an attorney from liability for such conduct.

In April 1997, Pickering Hunt (“Pickering”), a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation,1 hired Appellant George Bochetto, Esquire, an employee, officer, and shareholder of the law firm of Bochetto & Lentz, P.C., to defend it in two lawsuits concern*248ing.…