Harold Norse v. Henry Holt and Co. And Ted Morgan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that contract provisions preventing interference with existing rights do not turn holders of such rights into third-party beneficiaries
• holding that contract provisions preventing interference with existing rights do not turn holders of such rights into third-party beneficiaries
• contract unenforceable as against public policy may still be enforced if the claimant belongs to the class the public policy is designed to protect
• contract unenforceable as against public policy may still be enforced if the claimant belongs to the class the public policy is designed to protect
• “[t]o determine whether the statement has a defamatory meaning, [courts] interpret it from the standpoint of the average reader”
• summary judgment for author appropriate when no reasonable jury could understand the statement, when read in context, to be defamatory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).