City of Treasure Island v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding reliance upon one confidential source without independent confirmation is not malice
• holding reliance upon one confidential source without independent confirmation is not malice
• affirming trial court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant when plaintiff provided no evidence that a prospective employer would have hired the plaintiff but for defendant’s interference
• setting forth elements for a claim of interference with prospective economic advantage
• “even if- [the defendant were] to be deemed negligent for failure to investigate, either by obtaining independent confirmation of his information or consulting other, possibly more reliable sources, that finding would be insufficient to demonstrate actual malice.”
• “our Supreme Court has explained that the rule to be applied ... is whether ‘but for the wrongful acts of the defendant,’ it is reasonably probable that the plaintiff would have established a contractual relation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).