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HACKETHAL v. WEISSBEIN

Docket No. L.A. 31016.

24 Cal.3d 55 (1979)

592 P.2d 1175

154 Cal. Rptr. 423

CLEMENS A. HACKETHAL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ARTHUR S. WEISSBEIN, Defendant and Respondent. CLEMENS A. HACKETHAL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. IRVING L. SPRATT, Defendant and Respondent. CLEMENS A. HACKETHAL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. J. LAMONT MURDOCH, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

April 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edward J. Horowitz and Arthur J. Jaffee for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Wilson, Borror & Dunn, Lucien A. Van Hulle, Moore, Graves & Madory and Richard E. Madory for Defendants and Respondents.

Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber, Howard Hassard, David E. Willett, Charles F. Bond II, Musick, Peeler & Garrett, James E. Ludlam and Charles F. Forbes as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

NEWMAN, J.

Plaintiff has appealed from judgments of dismissal in three consolidated actions after the trial court sustained demurrers, without leave to amend, on the ground that allegedly defamatory publications were immunized by these words of Civil Code section 47: "A privileged publication ... is one made ... [i]n any (1) legislative or (2) judicial proceeding, or (3) in any other official proceeding authorized by law....

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