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FINKELSTEIN v. HEMISPHERX BIOPHARMA

No. 99-CV-338.

774 A.2d 332 (2001)

FINKELSTEIN, THOMPSON & LOUGHRAN and Donald J. Enright, Appellants, v. HEMISPHERX BIOPHARMA, INC., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 14, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven R. Becker, with whom Pamela A. Bresnahan was on the brief, Washington, DC, for appellants.

Conrad M. Shumadine, of the bar of the State of Virginia, pro hac vice, with whom Eugene J. Comey, Sharon M. Schroer, Elizabeth A. Wieser, Washington, DC, Gary A. Bryant, and Wendy E. Giberti were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY, RUIZ and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellee Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. ("Hemispherx") sued appellants Donald J. Enright and his law firm Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran, claiming that Enright slandered it when he solicited one of Hemispherx's shareholders as a client in order to bring a potential shareholders' derivative or class action lawsuit against Hemispherx. Invoking the absolute privilege recognized in this jurisdiction for defamatory statements by an attorney...

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