James Nation v. American Capital, L

How courts have described this case

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• holding corporate entity acting as agent for company had conditional privilege to interfere with company’s contracts
• corporate officer privilege overcome if defendant “induced the breach to further [its] personal goals or to injure the other party to the contract, and acted contrary to the best interest of the corporation”
• the corporate officer privilege can be overcome if the defendant “induced the breach to further [its] personal goals or to injure the other party to the contract, and acted contrary to the best interest of the corporation”
• “Because the interests of corporate officers, directors, and shareholders [as agents] are sufficiently aligned with those of the company, they generally cannot be liable in tort when they interfere with the company’s contracts for the benefit of the company.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).