"The very essence of the protection afforded by an absolute privilege is its predictability _ a quality that is of peculiar importance in the case now before the court, " the White House contended in its brief.
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By granting defendants an absolute privilege against tort liability, the court has allowed the Church to use the shield of the first amendment as a sword . . . . The Paul decision is an unfortunate expansion of a doctrine intended to protect individual rights.
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Inquiries by a trial judge on whether the president was making a good-faith assertion over the need for delay " are so very, very intrusive that it argues strongly for the absolute privilege " that the president was seeking, Kennedy said.
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Last year, the appeals court rejected the claim of absolute privilege by a 2-1 majority that was composed of one of the court's most conservative members, Judge Stephen Williams, and its long-time liberal stalwart, Judge Patricia Wald.
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When no inquiry is permitted into motive or purpose, it is sometimes said that defendant has an absolute privilege; when the defendant can act in either good or bad faith, with impunity, it is more properly called " immunity " rather than " privilege ".
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In November 1978, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to take the case, citing the fact that neither the United States Constitution nor existing state shield laws provide journalists with an absolute privilege to refuse to provide information demanded in a criminal case by a defendant.
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The service characterizes its proposed privilege as an absolute privilege that would preclude the OIC from compelling any testimony regarding information learned by Secret Service agents and officers while performing protective functions in physical proximity to the president where the information would tend to reveal the president's contemporaneous activities.
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Canadian defamation law permits broad latitude in argument and exempts, with absolute privilege, comment made by way of argument, even if the arguments or positions advanced are noxious, intimidating or astonishing, or amusing enough to be quoted widely in the press ( true or not ).
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Facing defending a potentially long and expensive defamation action, she applied, successfully in the District Court, that laying a complaint with the Complaints Committee was an absolute privilege under the Defamation Act, akin to making a similar statement in Court, and Grays action was struck out.
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And while there's no absolute privilege that ( law enforcement ) can never get access to what you're reading, it's certainly hard to envision a situation where you're thought to have committed a crime based on the books you've bought ."
