14 results for 'cat:"Defamation" AND cat:"Interference With Contract" AND cat:"Contract"'.
J. Dever grants a multi-level marketing company and three of its corporate officers’ motions to compel arbitration following allegations of defamation, battery and contractual interference brought by a former independent business owner. The owner contracted with the company to sell its products. He expressed concern that the company was not investigating its support of former Vice President Mike Pence with regard to the 2020 election. Conflicts between the owner and the three officers escalated until, at a baseball game where company staff attended together, the officers allegedly accosted him and accused him of being armed, “mentally ill,” and “of the Devil,” then called the police. The police then escorted him out of the park where he claims ten of them punched and kicked him, breaking his ribs. The owner is unopposed to the company moving for arbitration but disagrees that the individuals involved can arbitrate because they didn’t sign the contract between him and the company. However, the individuals are affiliated with the company and can therefore compel arbitration.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Dever, Filed On: May 9, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv442, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Arbitration, defamation, interference With Contract
J. Kendall denies the suing refurbished electronics dealer’s motion for sanctions and an injunction against the refurbished electronics shop it is suing. The suing dealer accused the other shop of filing false complaints about its products so as to disrupt its business, but the court finds the suing dealer has not provided sufficient evidence to back up those claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv6258, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Tort, defamation, interference With Contract
J. Blakey grants an asset management firm and its executives’ motions to dismiss counterclaims brought against them by one of the firm’s former managers. The asset management firm sued the former manager for breach of contract, fraud and trade secret misappropriation over his alleged lies to clients and intentional sabotage of business relationships. The former manager shot back with counterclaims of defamation, tortious interference and breach of fiduciary duty, but the court finds he has not sufficiently alleged any of these claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Blakey, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv4269, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Tort, defamation, interference With Contract
J. Tsuchida partially denies dismissal of the company owner's complaint that the hacker conference organizer imposed a lifetime ban on him by falsely accusing him of admitting to repeatedly sexually harassing people. The owner alleges sufficient facts to state claims of defamation related to a transparency report announcing his ban and to an update to DefCon's website referring to the owner's behavior.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Tsuchida, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1932, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: defamation, interference With Contract, Jurisdiction
J. Norris grants the defendant company's dismissal motion in this lawsuit alleging tortious and intentional interference with business relations, defamation and breach of contract. The plaintiff company's defamation claim fails, as its allegations "fail to raise a right to relief above the speculation level."
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Norris, Filed On: February 9, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2093, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: defamation, interference With contract, contract
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J. Hurd preserves a hairstylist’s claims for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and tortious interference with business relations that allege a beauty supply store in Schenectady, New York, falsely accused her of shoplifting and discussed the events in front of other customers, which ultimately hurt her business. She plausibly alleges the store’s allegations to local authorities were made with actual malice. The court also finds that the crime of shoplifting is considered a “serious crime” pursuant to a slander per se claim.
Court: USDC Northern District of New York, Judge: Hurd, Filed On: February 8, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv666, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: defamation, Emotional Distress, interference With Contract
J. Urbanski denies the competitor's motion to dismiss a defamation suit. The company provides electronic pull tabs for regulated charitable gaming market and demonstrated that the competitor's comment to a potential client accusing the company of being involved in a severe state investigation could be perceived as making a statement of fact.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Urbanski , Filed On: December 28, 2023, Case #: 7:23cv321, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Tort, defamation, interference With Contract
J. Raggi answers certified questions by finding that the district court improperly dismissed state defamation and tortious interference claims stemming from accusations of rape that defendant, a Yale University student, brought against plaintiff, a co-ed. Disciplinary proceedings held by the college were not quasi-judicial, and thus defendant did not have immunity concerning statements made therein. However, the lower court properly dismissed claims contending the initial report to campus officials interfered with plaintiff's contract to attend the school in light of his immediate suspension because that claim was untimely filed.
Court: 2nd Circuit, Judge: Raggi, Filed On: October 25, 2023, Case #: 21-95, Categories: Education, defamation, interference With Contract
J. Talwani issues a mixed ruling in a lawsuit stemming from a writer's short story about a kidney donor who is not happy to receive a letter from her living donor. A kidney donor who shared a similar letter with the writer told publishers and journalists that the writer plagiarized her letter. The writer is entitled to a declaration that she owns the copyright to her short story. Although the story copied parts of the donor's letter, the story's version of the letter, in combination with the rest of the short story, makes transformative use of the letter for an entirely new purpose than the original letter served. However, the writer's defamation claim fails because it was not defamatory for the donor to assert that the writer had used her letter in the first versions of her story without attribution.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Talwani, Filed On: September 14, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv10203, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, defamation, interference With Contract