Phil Crowley Steel Corporation v. Sharon Steel Corporation and Nvf Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the parent corporations’ interference was not justified when they acted with an improper purpose
• stating that a parent corporation’s interference with its subsidiary’s contractual relations is not justified if the parent acts for an “improper purpose”
• Missouri law dictated that a parent corporation may interfere with its subsidiary's contractual relations unless the parent employs wrongful means or acts for an improper purpose
• Missouri law dictated that a parent corporation may interfere with its subsidiary's contractual relations unless the parent employs wrongful means or acts for an improper purpose
• Missouri law dictated that a parent corporation may interfere with its subsidiary’s contractual relations unless the parent employs wrongful means or acts for an improper purpose
• order of parent and subsidiary to subsidiary’s subsidiary to increase its prices above those set in contracts with third party improper where purpose was to “enhance their interests in a separate . . . subsidiary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).