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PREISER v. ROSENZWEIG

538 Pa. 139 (1994)

646 A.2d 1166

Stanley E. PREISER, Appellee, v. Richard ROSENZWEIG, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 22, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avrum Levicoff and Alan T. Silko, Anstandig, Levicoff & McDyer, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Howard A. Specter and Katherine H. Fein, Specter Law Offices, P.C., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY, CASTILLE and MONTEMURO, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

Common law accords an absolute privilege of immunity to statements, whether defamatory or not, to pleadings and other papers filed in regular judicial proceedings. This case raises a question regarding the extension of this absolute privilege to defamatory statements made in private arbitral proceedings conducted by a professional association, in this instance, the Special Fee Determination Committee of the...

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