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3182 Civil Code section 47.5, which purports to create an exception to the litigation privilege by permitting a peace officer to sue for defamation based on false complaints made about him/her in an official proceeding, is a content-based limitation on freedom of speech, making it constitutionally invalid and unenforceable; a publication that is reasonably susceptible of a defamatory meaning on its face is actionable without proof of special damages.CitationWALKER v KIOUSIS (Maligned Cop) 93 CA4 1432 [See: CCP 425.16; CivC 47, 47.5; Gritchen v Collier 73 FS2 1148 rev on other grds 254 F3 807; Haddad v Wall 107 FS2 1230; Simon & Schuster v NY State 502 US 105; RAV v City 505 US 377]
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