Respondents shall recover of appellant $75 costs and disbursements of this appeal.
I would grant the motion to dismiss the complaint. In my view the allegedly defamatory statements were protected by the Federal doctrine of absolute privilege as being "within the outer perimeter of [defendant's] line of duty" (Barr v Matteo,
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