Conway v. Smerling

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendants who repeatedly inquired into progress of criminal investigation had initiated or procured criminal proceedings for the purposes of a malicious prosecution claim
• holding that defendants who repeatedly inquired into progress of criminal investigation had initiated or procured criminal proceedings for the purposes of a malicious prosecution claim
• stating that malicious prosecution and abuse' of process, although distinct torts, have “the common ingredient of an improper purpose”
• stating that malicious prosecution and abuse of process, although distinct torts, have \the common ingredient of an improper purpose\
• explaining that the term “outrageous” “means, for example, a high order of reckless ruthlessness or deliberate malevolence that . . . is simply intolerable”
• asserting that extreme and outrageous conduct represents more than mere annoyances, threats or petty oppressions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).