Turner v. Halliburton Co.

How courts have described this case

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• discussing actual malice and when a plaintiff in a defamation case must also prove the defendant had an evil-mindedness or specific intent to injure
• discussing defamation action but holding same reasoning applied to tortious interference claim
• ‘While these torts tend to merge somewhat in the ordinary course, the former is aimed at preserving existing contracts and the latter at protecting future or potential contractual relations.”
• “The issue raised on a plea of justification has been said to depend on the circumstances of the particular case ....” (quotation omitted)
• no suppression of evidence even though the inventory of items seized was given to defendant's mother, instead of defendant, in violation of K.S.A. 22-2512
• “a qualified privilege ... requires the plaintiff to prove actual malice by the defendant^]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).