Ellis v. City of Valdez

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing a distinction between cases where the executive has attempted to impound funds and cases in which an agency has exercised discretion with respect to the expenditure of funds authorized for particular purposes within the expertise of the agency
• recognizing a distinction between cases where the executive has attempted to impound funds and cases in which an agency has exercised discretion with respect to the expenditure of fiinds authorized for particular purposes within the expertise of the agency
• court concluded that the tort contemplated wrongful interference with a developing relationship by an outsider to that relationship
• “[A] person who is involved in an economic relationship with another, or who is pursuing reasonable and legitimate prospects of entering such a relationship, is protected from a third person’s wrongful conduct which is intended to disrupt the relationship.”
• appropriation is maximum amount that may be spent
• intentional interference with prospective economic advantage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).