DIXON v. DeLANCE

No. 1908, September Term, 1989.

84 Md. App. 441 (1990)

579 A.2d 1213

CINDY LYNN DIXON, INDIVIDUALLY, ETC. v. DIANE FRANCES DeLANCE, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied January 4, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol L. McCulloch, Towson, for appellant.

Alvin I. Frederick and Kenneth H. Meltzer (Eccelston and Wolf on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before KARWACKI, ROBERT M. BELL and WENNER, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

This appeal concerns the applicability of the privileges possessed by an attorney and his client to publish defamatory statements about persons in a judicial proceeding in which those defamed persons were neither parties nor witnesses. We must also decide whether the trial court was clearly erroneous in concluding that the slander suit brought by the allegedly defamed persons against the attorney and his client was without substantial justification...

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