qualified-privilege
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-839 | Thomas H. Oehmke v. Patrick Andrew Guinan | Michigan | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech malicious-reporting qualified-privilege | Qualified Privilege for FBI Crime Tips |
| 20-981 | Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege | Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private indiv… |