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LUNDQUIST v. REUSSER

Docket No. S030738.

7 Cal.4th 1193 (1994)

875 P.2d 1279

31 Cal. Rptr.2d 776

VIVIENNE LUNDQUIST, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. HEINZ REUSSER et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

July 21, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Archbald & Spray, Barry Clifford Snyder, Katherine H. Bower and Douglas B. Large for Defendants and Appellants.

Glen M. Reiser, Cynthia H. Reiser, Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton and Michael C. O'Brien for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GEORGE, J.

Under the "common-interest privilege," codified in California in Civil Code section 47, subdivision (c) (hereafter section 47(c)),1 a defendant who makes a statement to others on a matter of common interest is immunized from liability for defamation so long as the statement is made "without malice." In this case we must determine whether, when it is established that the statement in...

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