As an education to people who read our legal reports on Twitter of what is alleged in a civil proceeding. The fair report privilege “confers an absolute privilege on any fair and true report in, or a communication to, a public journal of a judicial proceeding, or anything said in
the course thereof.” (Sipple v. Foundation For Nat. Progress (1999) 71 Cal.App.4th 226, 240, 83 Cal.Rptr.2d 677.) When it applies, the reported statements are “absolutely privileged regardless of the defendants' motive for reporting” them. (Hawran v. Hixson (2012
209 Cal.App.4th 256, 278, 147 Cal.Rptr.3d 88; Courts have construed the privilege broadly, “mindful of the Legislature's intent ... ‘to preserve the scarce resources of California's courts [and] to avoid using the courts for satellite litigation.’ ”. Attorneys
are not exempt if they are named in a lawsuit. “In general, whether a privileged occasion exists within the meaning of Civil Code section 47, subdivision (d), is for the court to decide; whether the report of the official proceedings itself is ‘fair and true,’ provided 
reasonable minds could disagree as to the effect of the communication on the average reader is a question of fact for the jury. One reason why we believe attorneys avoid scrutiny is because people are afraid to out them or report on them. We are not. #RHOBH #GirardiFraud
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