Eldridge v. Johndrow

How courts have described this case

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

• “Driving away an individual’s existing or potential customers is the archetypical injury this cause of action was devised to remedy.” (citations omitted)
• explaining that presumption may be rebutted depending on “the age of the precedent, how well it has worked in practice, its consistency with other legal principles, and the extent to which people‟s reliance on the precedent would create injustice or hardship if it were overturned”
• setting forth the factors that a Utah appellate court must consider before overruling precedent
• “We therefore conclude that the improper-purpose doctrine has not worked well in practice, . . . . It should therefore be abandoned.” (internal citation omitted)
• “a plaintiff might bring a tortious interference suit alleging that the defendant’s improper means of interference was an abuse of judicial process.”
• noting relevance of motive in abuse of process cas- es

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).