Cardwell v. Sears Roebuck and Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no “direct relationship” between the injury asserted and the illegal conduct alleged because “even if Sears did target Cardwell with extortion, its ultimate purpose was to defraud its customers”
• questioning the view that a discharged employee may bring an extortion action against his employer since “[t]he threat of being fired is forever present for the at-will employee”
• finding no “direct relationship” between the injury asserted and the illegal conduct alleged because “even if Sears did target Caldwell with its extortion, its ultimate purpose was to defraud its customers”
• in the context of obstruction of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).