Frederick R. Burke, Plaintiff-Respondent v. John J. Deiner, Warren Glaser and George Buono, Defendants-Appellants…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey held that municipal parking commissioners are only entitled to qualified immunity for defamatory statements made in an official resolution and that loss of that privilege requires proof of actual malice as defined in New York Times v. Sullivan; the record did not show such malice, so the judgment in favor of the plaintiff was reversed.