Rich & Whillock, Inc. v. Ashton Development, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that economic duress does not apply when “conventional alternatives and remedies” are still available
• holding that economic duress does not apply when “conventional alternatives and remedies” are still available
• noting that subcontractor believed the threat was “blackmail” and “sign[ed] it only because [it] had to in order to survive”
• applying this standard in the context of an arbitration agreement 26 between an employer and employee
• “[A] a bad faith threat to breach a contract…may constitute a wrongful act for purposes of the economic duress doctrine.”
• wrongful conduct includes bad faith threats not to perform an obligation that is owed to the other party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).