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Libel and Slander - Priviledge in Reports Regarding Possible Criminal Activity
In Shell Oil Co. v. Writt, the Texas Supreme Court grappled with the question of whether providing a report regarding possible criminal activity to a government agency was an absolutely privileged communication or a conditionally privileged communication. The court would determine that the report was given under the specter of impending litigation and should be absolutely privileged. In order to reach this conclusion, the court considered public policy, and compared and contrasted case law.