California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's libel suit against his ex-wife, claiming that she maliciously made false statements about him in a declaration she had filed in their marital dissolution proceeding, the appellate division's reversal of the trial court's order of dismissal is reversed and remanded where exception to the litigation privilege on which the appellate division relied may apply only to statements made in a martial dissolution proceeding by or against a third party, not under the circumstances of this case when the statements are made against a party to the action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/23/2012
• Published 10/23/2012

Judges

• Rothschild

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel