LAW 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Punitive Damages, Direct Process, Trade Union

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 122
• Professor: Patricia Hania

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If so, then the court will merely require proof that the defendants should have known that their actions might hurt the plaintiff. The union threatened the airline w/ an illegal strike unless they fired the plaintiff (employee in this case). Interference w/ contractual relations occurs when the defendant disrupts a contract that exists between the plaintiff and a 3rd party: direct process that underlies both forms of the tort, direct inducement to breach of contract. Indirect inducement to breach of contract: direct inducement to breach of contract occurs when the defendant directly persuades a 3rd party to break its contract w/ the plaintiff. Liability requires 4 factors: the defendant must know about the contract that exists between the 3rd party and the plaintiff. Defe(cid:374)da(cid:374)t does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) all of the details of that (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)a(cid:272)t: the defendant must intend to cause the 3rd party to breach that contract. The defendant does not have to intend to hurt the plaintiff.