IN RE FINE PAPER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. APPEAL OF LAW FIRM OF SLOAN AND ASSOCIATES, P.C. (FORMERLY SLOAN AND CONNELLY, P.C.), AND JAMES B. SLOAN
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The court denied a petition for rehearing, holding that no cause of action lies for interference with a contract that is void as against public policy, especially when entering into such an agreement constitutes a criminal act.
The court held that an action for interference with contract does not lie when the contract itself is void as against public policy.
The appellant urged that interference with an unenforceable agreement could support a cause of action, citing several cases. The court distinguished t…
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GIBBONS, Circuit Judge:
James B. Sloan and Sloan and Associates, P.C., in this appeal from a final judgment awarding fees from a fund in court, contend that the district court erred in denying their motion to strike from a pleading a sham and false allegation containing a defamatory statement about James B. Sloan. The motion is addressed to a single line in a 522 page Report, which was filed by Weil, Gotshal & Manges in support of objections by class members to various fee requests. The Report quotes from a memorandum of a June 16, 1981 telephone conversation between Harold Kohn and Lowell Sachnoff, which attributes the defamatory statement to Sachnoff.
We hold that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion to strike. The courts must for the most part rely upon the self-discipline of members of a learned profession for the avoidance of backbiting and the circulation of defamatory gossip. They must have discretion in determining when disputes over such matters are too trivial to warrant formal judicial attention.
The order denying the motion to strike will be affirmed.
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