LaMotte v. Punch Line of Columbia, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• comparing civil conspiracy, which is a combination of two or more persons joining for the purpose of injuring plaintiff and causing special damage to plaintiff, with criminal conspiracy
• finding plaintiffs failed to assert a cause of action for abuse of process when they did not allege defendants \engaged in `a willful act in the use of the process not proper under regular conduct of the proceedings'\
• finding plaintiffs failed to assert a cause of action for abuse of process when they did not allege defendants “engaged in ‘a willful act in the use of the process not proper under regular conduct of the proceedings’ ”
• upholding the trial court's grant of summary judgment on a claim for violation of the UTPA where there was no genuine issue of material fact as to whether the defendants engaged in unfair acts that affected a public interest
• public impact requirement recognized by Supreme Court
• no public interest involved in suit between competitors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).