Security Title Agency, Inc. v. Pope

How courts have described this case

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• holding the 22 encouragement or assistance must be a “a substantial factor in causing the resulting tort”
• affirming aiding and abetting verdict when competitor plotted with employee to solicit multiple co-workers
• “[A]n award of more 20 than four times the amount of compensatory damages might be close to the line of 21 constitutional impropriety.”
• “The reprehensibility factor of harm suffered as ‘the result of intentional malice, trickexy, or deceit’ x-ather than ‘mere accident’ may be satisfied when the defendant commits willful acts in dex-ogation of the plaintiffs lights.”
• “Consistent with the fiduciary duty of loyalty, an employee may not, absent agreement to the contrary, statute or other authority, compete with his or her employer concerning the subject matter of the employment.”
• reducing 5.7:1 ratio of punitive damages to 1:1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).