Bluebird Partners v. First Fidelity Bank, N. A.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to enforce the contract on champerty grounds may “engender uncertainties in the free market system in connection with untold numbers of sophisticated business transactions—a not insignificant potentiality in the State that harbors the financial capital of the world”
• “The statute does not embrace a case where some other purpose induced the purchase, and the intent to sue was merely incidental and contingent.” (citation omitted)
• “[T]he foundational intent to sue on that claim must at least have been the primary purpose for, if not the sole motivation behind, entering into the transaction.”
• “This Court’s jurisprudence demonstrates that while this Court has been willing to find that an action is not champertous as a matter of law, it has been hesitant to find that an action is champertous as a matter of law.” (collecting cases) (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).