Silverman v. Progressive Broadcasting, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court must “balance [the d]efendant’s malicious intent against the justification for the injurious act and the severity of the injury to determine whether a prima facie tort has been committed”
• holding the malice element to be satisfied by allegations that a plaintiff’s former employer wrote a letter to her current employer referring to the plaintiff “as a liar, a gossip, and out of control”
• “Intentional acts by reason of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination are unlawful acts and thus not actionable, as a matter of law, under the prima facie tort theory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).