Charles v. District of Columbia Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring “(1) a willful act in the use of judicial process; (2) for an ulterior purpose not proper in the regular conduct of proceedings.”
• allowing abuse of process claim to survive summary judgment where the process server “had been previously prosecuted for threatening to kill [the plaintiff]”
• “Even where . . . litigation is motivated by pure spite, that is insufficient to state an abuse of process claim where process is used only to accomplish the result for which it was created.” (Internal quotation marks and alteration omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).