MBF Leasing, LLC v. Goodwin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the proper question in determining whether the contract would not have been breached “but for” the defendant’s conduct “is whether, in the absence of interference by [the defendant,] the breach would not have occurred.”
• “Under New York law, an employee’s tortious acts fall within the scope of his employment if done while the servant was doing his master’s work, no matter how irregularly, or with what disregard of instructions.”
• “Under New York law, although ‘[t]he standard of outrageous conduct is strict, rigorous and difficult to satisfy . . . , that is not the case when there is a deliberate and malicious campaign of harassment or intimidation.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).