Franklin's Curator v. Soward

How courts have described this case

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

• denying motion to dismiss tortious interference claim based on specific contextual allegations that rendered the plaintiff’s inferences of misconduct and malice reasonable
• dismissing claim without prejudice where it lacked necessary factual allegations that were also outside the plaintiff's knowledge
• denying a motion to dismiss a tortious interference claim where the plaintiff alleged that her , former employer made knowingly false statements to professional organizations in her field to interfere with her “professional livelihood”
• denying motion to dismiss where amended complaint alleged “to whom the statement was published, approximately when the statement was made, the content of the statement, and that an employee of [the defendant company] published it”
• “For the fourth element, actual harm must generally be established, but in cases in which the statement was defamatory per se and was made with actual malice, harm may be presumed.”
• \[T]he Court finds that Doe has \stated a claim for intentional interference with business relations arising from the alleged negative statements ..., regardless of whether those statements are specific enough to support a claim for defamation.\ \

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).