BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF MONROE COUNTY

v.

WALKER ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Nw. Fla. Home Health Agency & Susan Cope v. Merrill, 469 So. 2d 893 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985)
  …til a finding or probable cause is made and an independent vote to make the matter public is taken, the third district approved the rationale expressed by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Toft v. Ketchum, 18 N.J. 280, 113 A. 2d 671 (1955), cert. den. 350 U.S. 887, 76 S.Ct. 141, 100 L.Ed. 782 (1955), where granting an absolute privilege to complainants against attorneys is the result of weighing the two policy considerations — on the one hand, the injury that may be suffered by an attorney as a result of proc…
• Stone v. Rosen, 348 So. 2d 387 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)
  …a and Missouri. Among those extending an absolute privilege are the following States: California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas. In Toft v. Ketchum, 18 N.J. 280, 113 A. 2d 671 (1955), cert. denied, 350 U.S. 887, 76 S.Ct. 141, 100 L.Ed. 782 the New Jersey Supreme Court considered a malicious prosecution action by an attorney against a citizen who had filed a complaint with the grievance committee. In holding that an absolute privilege was the appropriate de…
• Middlesex Cnty. Ethics Comm. v. Garden State Bar Ass'n, 457 U.S. 423 (U.S. 1982)
  …787 (1976). The New Jersey Supreme Court has made clear that filing a complaint with the local Ethics and Grievance Committee “is in effect a filing with the Supreme Court. . . .” Toft v. Ketchum, 18 N. J. 280, 284, 113 A. 2d 671, 674, cert. denied, 350 U. S. 887 (1955). “From the very beginning a disciplinary proceeding is judicial in nature, initiated by filing a complaint with an ethics and grievance committee.”12 18 N. J., at 284, 113 A. 2d, at 674. It is clear beyond doubt that the New Jersey Supreme Co…