Word: tortious
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Bodkin has filed six counts against Harvard: breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, tortious interference with contractual relations, negligent emotional distress, breach of fiduciary duty and negligent supervision and negligent retention...
Bodkin has filed six counts against Harvard:breach of contract, breach of the covenant of goodfaith and fair dealing, tortious interference withcontractual relations, negligent emotionaldistress, breach of fiduciary duty and negligentsupervision and negligent retention...
...issue, it seems, was not libel. CBS lawyers feared the network might be vulnerable to a suit on the grounds of "tortious interference"--inducing one party to break a legal contract with another. Attorneys are divided over whether the network could successfully have been sued on such grounds. By paying money to Wigand and agreeing to indemnify him against a lawsuit, some contended, CBS had put itself at serious risk. Attorneys who have been involved in litigation against the tobacco industry, however, insisted that the network was needlessly timid. "I think it's appalling they would fold over such...
...that might be called, in the argot of the Law School, tortious...
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