McGrew v. Heinold Commodities, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[t]he mere existence of an ulterior motive in performing an otherwise proper act does not constitute abuse of process”
• Anything said or written in a legal proceeding is protected from defamation actions by absolute privilege
• “Illinois, like most states, does not recognize a cause of action for punitive damages alone”
• “[T]he rules on absolute privilege in defamation actions apply to invasion of privacy suits as well.”
• “the validity of the underlying debt is simply irrelevant to an abuse of process claim”
• “punitive damages represent a type of relief rather than an independent cause of action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).