Lee v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““A cause of action exists against a person who maliciously procures another to breach a contract for personal services. The wrongful act is malicious when done without legal or social justification. I do not believe that the rule should include advice given by a parent to an infant child to disaffirm a contract. Public policy dictates that parents should have an absolute right to advise their infant children with regard to all matters; that such a right should be exercised freely and should not subject the parent to any inquiry as to motive. Such an unrestricted right is one most calculated to promote the best interests of the family relationship.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. MacDonald v. Trammell