Larson v. Sysco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions

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1. “Speculative injury as to some future difficulty does not give rise to a cause of action as defamatory per se.”). Indeed, because a defamation action provides a remedy for concrete harm to one’s reputation, plaintiffs who cannot show such damage should, in any event, refrain from filing suit precipitously and then hoping to exploit discov ery tools to uncover some previously unknown negative comment. The strengthened version of Rule 11 only bolsters that prescription. See Utah R. Civ. P. 11 (b) (When presenting a complaint to the court, an attorney certifies”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Steven Wayne Agee v. Morton Thiokol, Inc., a Delaware Corporation · Mast v. Overson

2. “allege criminal conduct on the part of the plaintiff or impute the contracting of some loathsome disease, unchaste behavior (on the part of a woman) or conduct which is incongruous with the exercise of a lawful business, trade, profession, or office.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Steven Wayne Agee v. Morton Thiokol, Inc., a Delaware Corporation · Jacob v. Bezzant

3. “where the defendant intentionally engaged in some conduct toward the plaintiff, (a) with the purpose of inflicting emotional distress, or, (b) where any reasonable person would have known that such would result; and his actions are of such a nature as to be considered outrageous and intolerable in that they offend against the generally accepted standards of decency and morality.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dubois v. Grand Central