Reeves v. Hanlon

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that corporations may have nominal officers without control over business
• concluding corporate officers who 1 participate in management of the corporation are fiduciaries of the corporation
• holding “a plaintiff may recover damages for intentional interference with an at-will employment relation under the same California standard applicable to claims for intentional interference with prospective economic advantage”
• stating a wrongful act is an act “proscribed by some constitutional, statutory, regulatory, common law, or other determinable legal standard”
• applying the same “independently wrongful act” standard to intentional interference with an at-will contract as to intentional interference with prospective economic advantage
• stating “a defendant is not subject to liability for intentional interference if the interference consists merely of extending a job offer that induces an employee to terminate his or her at-will employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).