Defamation-in-Title • Absolute Privilege • Filing of Lis Pendens

R Investment Sixteen, LP v. South Philly Plaza, LL, PICS Case No. 17-0909 (C.P. Philadelphia May 26, 2017) Djerassi, J. (9 pages).

The absolute privileges enjoyed by a defendant in a pure defamation case are also available to a defendant in a case based on a claim of defamation-in-title; however, defendant’s preliminary objections asserting the privilege in this case were not clear and free from doubt. The court overruled the preliminary objections to the defamation-in-title claims asserted in these consolidate cases.

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