430 N.E.2d 960 (Ohio App. 10 Dist. 1980), 80AP-148, Justice v. Mowery

Citation: 430 N.E.2d 960, 69 Ohio App.2d 75

Opinion Judge: MCCORMAC, J.

Party Name: JUSTICE, Appellant, v. MOWERY, Appellee. [*]

Attorney: An attorney has absolute immunity against a libel and slander action for statements made representing a client in the course of litigation, either in the pleadings, the briefs, or in oral statements to the judge and jury, so long as the defamatory matter may possibly bear some relation to the jud...

Judge Panel: REILLY and STEPHENSON, JJ., concur.

Case Date: July 10, 1980

Court: Ohio Court of Appeals