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RIDER v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B030173.

199 Cal.App.3d 278 (1988)

244 Cal. Rptr. 770

WILLIAM RIDER et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; L.F.P., INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

March 4, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hertzberg & Regele and Carol Knopf for Petitioners.

DeWitt W. Clinton, County Counsel, and Frederick R. Bennett, Assistant County Counsel, for Respondent.

James K. Hahn, City Attorney, Lewis N. Unger and Annette Keller, Assistant City Attorneys, Herman & Wallach, Stuart P. Herman, Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, Frank Cronin and Elizabeth Platte Johnson for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

JOHNSON, J.

Where a father publicly charges his minor daughter was raped by a former employee, are the statements by the daughter and others to the police about the alleged rape discoverable by the former employee in his civil suit against the father for defamation?

We believe, as a general rule, a plaintiff in a defamation action who claims he was wrongfully accused...

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