Davidson v. Yihai Cao

How courts have described this case

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• observing that under Illinois law ”[t]here is a strong presumption that a non-party to a contract cannot enforce the contract.”
• noting that “the First Circuit ‘recognize[s] that the desire to injure a business or business reputation is an improper ulterior motive sufficient to state a claim for abuse of process’”
• denying a motion to dismiss a breach of contract claim for money damages for violation of a confidential disclosure agree- ment
• denying motion to dismiss an abuse of process claim where a party alleged, in part, that a lawsuit was filed against them and publicized through a press release to damage their reputation and publicly humiliate them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).