Skaskiw and Vermont Volunteer Services for Animals Humane Society

How courts have described this case

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• noting that lack of even general allegation of malice counsels in favor of dismissal
• looking to the Restatement (Second) of Torts, provisions of which it has “frequently . . . adopted,” in addressing a defamation claim
• upholding the dismissal of a tortious interference claim because plaintiff did not allege that defendants were acting with actual malice
• “[A]ctual malice is defined as bad faith, personal ill will, spite, hostility, or a deliberate intent to harm the plaintiff”
• employees of state agencies cannot be sued for tortious interference with contract with their employers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).