Auclair v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• collecting cases where claims brought “under the guise of other causes of action actually sound in defamation,” even where the complaint alleges economic harm
• finding the weight of authority “requires a plaintiff to identify the potential customers at issue when asserting a cause of action for interference with prospective economic advantage”
• dismissing claims that referred only to “patients” and other “unspecified third parties”
• “Defamation actions under New York law are subject to a one-year statute of limitations. N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 215(3).”
• “[A]s a rule, conclusory allegations of interference with an unspecified contract are insufficient to plead tortious interference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).