Ethyl Corp. v. Balter

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “a cause of action for interference does not exist against one who is himself a party to the contract allegedly interfered with”
• “[S]o long as improper means are not employed, activities taken to safeguard or promote one’s own financial, and contractual interests are entirely non-actionable.”
• no claim for interference with contract because the alleged interference was consequential and only indirectly caused the termination of the contract at issue
• \There is no such thing as a cause of action for interference which is only ... consequentially effected.\
• a cause of action for tortious interference does not exist against one who is himself a party to the business relationship with which there has allegedly been interference
• “So long as improper means are not employed, activities taken to safeguard or promote one’s own financial, and contractual interests are entirely non-actionable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).