LARIMORE v. BLAYLOCK

Record No. 991567.

528 S.E.2d 119 (2000)

L. Keith LARIMORE v. Bruce K. BLAYLOCK, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. David Nixon (Huffman & Nixon, on brief), for appellant.

Kevin O. Barnard, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General; Gregory E. Lucyk, Senior Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for appellees.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ, and KINSER, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


LACY, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether defamatory communications between persons involved in a university's tenure review process are entitled to the defense of qualified privilege or absolute immunity under a doctrine of "intracorporate immunity."

L. Keith Larimore, a Professor of Marketing in the College of Business and Economics at Radford University, filed a motion for judgment alleging that during the course of his tenure review proceeding...

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