WESTLAND DEVELOPMENT CO., INC. v. Romero

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that one of the essential elements of an abuse of process claim is the existence of an ulterior motive
• stating that Richardson “arguably might be read as blurring the line between malicious prosecution and abuse of process”
• “[W]e do not believe our Supreme Court intended to do away with the distinction between abuse of process and malicious prosecution.”
• “An appellate court will affirm a lower court’s ruling if right for any reason.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).