Norton v. Cass County

How courts have described this case

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

• qualified privilege for citizen to petition his local legislative body in tort action based upon intentional inducement to breach contract
• “A further requirement of a legally sufficient complaint is that it set forth factual allegations from which actual malice [i.e., lack of justification] may reasonably be said to exist as opposed to the bare assertion of actual malice”
• charge of actual malice must be supported by factual allegations
• in context of petitioning government

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).