Martella v. Woods

How courts have described this case

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• “We cannot agree that the threat [of litigation] alleged here constituted the infliction of ‘fear’ for purposes of the extortion statute. . . . Such conduct may be tortious under state law, but we decline to expand the federal extortion statute to make it a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).