Palmer v. Tandem Management Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “there is no abuse of process when the action is filed to intimidate and embarrass a defendant knowing there is no entitlement to recover the full amount of the damages sought”
• “Proof of an improper motive by the person filing the lawsuit for even a malicious purpose does not satisfy this element.”
• “The improper purpose is ordinarily an attempt to secure from another some collateral advantage not properly in-cludable in the process itself and is a form of extortion in which a lawfully used process is perverted to an unlawful use.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).