Mantia v. Hanson

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a claim for tortious interference with economic relations may be excepted from a claim of absolute litigation privilege where the “improper means” of interference is alleged to have been the “prosecution of unfounded litigation”
• finding that a claim for tortious interference with economic relations may be excepted from a claim of absolute litigation privilege where the “improper means” of interference is alleged to have been the “prosecution of unfounded litigation”
• remanding for reconsideration of discretionary award of prevailing party fee under ORS 20.190, where “the trial court exercised its discretion * * * based, in part, on a criterion that we have now determined was inapposite”
• litigation privilege provides immunity for conduct and statements made in connection with judicial proceedings, but there is an exception for “wrongful initiation” actions
• court was unable to say that it was objectively unreason- able for party to assert claim, such that ORS 20.105 would apply, when legal question was “unsettled and manifestly subject to reasonable dispute”
• “Because the trial court exercised its discretion under ORS 20.190(3) based, in part, on a criterion that we have now determined was inapposite, we remand for the trial court to again exercise its discretion in light of our determination [.] ”

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