80 Md. App. 174 - Meredith v. Talbot County’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 668 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Andrus v. Allard · Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. · Liscombe v. Potomac Edison Co. · Merchants Mortgage Co. v. Lubow · 38 Md. App. 10 - Bell v. Bell
Most-quoted passages
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“[djuress is essentially composed of the following two elements: (1) A wrongful act or threat by the opposite party to the transaction or by a third party of which the opposite party is aware and takes advantage, and (2) a state of mind in which the complaining party was over whelmed by fear and precluded from using free will or judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[An] act done or threatened may be wrongful even though not unlawful, per se; and that the threat to institute legal proceedings, criminal or civil, which might be justifiable, per se, becomes wrongful within the meaning of this rule if made with the corrupt intent to coerce a transaction grossly unfair to the victim and not related to the subject of such proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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