Rice v. Hodapp

How courts have described this case

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

• finding plaintiffs claim of intentional interference with a business relationship failed because defendant had an unqualified right to interfere
• refusing to permit a claim for emotional distress because it would subvert Missouri's at will employment policy
• explaining qualified privilege in context of interest or duty; holding that company's communication to non-supervisory employees regarding sexual harassment by another employee fell only within qualified privilege
• a “genuine” dispute is a “real and substantial one,” not one consisting merely of conjecture, theory, and possibilities
• a “genuine” dispute is a “real and substantial one,” not one consisting merely of conjecture, theory, and possibilities
• “communications between officers of the same corporation in the due and regular course of the corporate business, or between different offices of the same corporation, are not publications to third persons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).