HAVILAH REAL PROPERTY SERVICES, LLC v. VLK, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that it is only “commercially reasonable to anticipate” a future economic relationship where one can gauge the “likelihood that the plaintiff would have received” the economic benefit and the likelihood is a “probability,” not a “mere possibility” (citations omitted)
• “VLK’s argument that Havilah failed to identify specific business relationships can be disposed of by reference to our decision in Carr v. Brown, 395 A.2d 79, 84 (D.C. 1978)”
• “VLK’s argument that Havilah failed to identify specific business relationships can be disposed of by reference to our decision in Carr v. Brown, 395 A.2d 79, 84 (D.C. 1978)”
• “If the litigation underlying the lis pendens filing was pursued in good faith, then both it and any notice of lis pendens filed in connection with that action are privileged and thus cannot form the basis for any valid claim of tortious interference.”
• “[T]he ‘motive’ behind [any] interference is the key consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).