Coastal Abstract Service, Inc. v. First American Title Insurance Company, John M. Hollenbeck

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a corporate officer may be personally liable for false advertising under the Lanham Act
• holding that vague and subjective statement that the plaintiff was \too small\ to handle certain business did not give rise to liability under Lanham Act or California law of defamation
• holding that vague and subjective statement 12 that the plaintiff was “too small” to handle certain business did not give rise to liability under the 13 Lanham Act or a claim of defamation under California law
• holding 15 that an officer cannot “hide behind the corporation where he is an actual participant in the tort”
• noting that jury’s finding about the contours of the “relevant purchasing public” was supported by substantial evidence
• upholding jury’s verdict on Lanham Act where misrepresentation was made to one of three potential clients

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).