Onge v. Department of Social Welfare

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a lack of references “to any pending investigations or possible regulatory action” and allusions to de minimis reputational “adverse consequences” are insufficient to constitute coercion
• holding statements “encouraging” companies to evaluate risk of doing business with the plaintiff did not violate the Constitution where the statements did not “intimate that some form of punishment or adverse regulatory action would follow the failure to accede to the request”
• holding statements “encouraging” companies to evaluate risk of doing business with the plaintiff did not violate the Constitution where the statements did not “intimate that some form of punishment or adverse regulatory action would follow the failure to accede to the request”
• “We accept 20 as true factual allegations but not conclusions, such as statements concerning a defendant’s state 21 of mind.”
• Vullo stating: “DFS urges all insurance companies and banks doing business in New York to join the companies that have already discontinued their arrangements with the NRA, and to take prompt actions to manage these risks and promote public health and safety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).