Asia Investment Co. v. Borowski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that settlement proposals, even if “made in a manner which might be considered a veiled ‘threat,’ ” are privileged under Civil Code § 47(2)
• collecting cases applying the absolute litigation privilege to non-defamation torts like abuse of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress, slander of title, and intentional interference with prospective business advantage
• \[Plaintiff] is unable to assert any business relationship with which there has been tortious interference. * * * The relationship between [plaintiff] and the City cannot be characterized as an economic relationship\
• “[Plaintiff] is unable to assert any business relationship with which there has been tortious interference. * * * The relationship between [plaintiff] and the City cannot be characterized as an economic relationship”
• privileged “threat to coerce Asia into 4 settling”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).