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It's also potentially tortious interference: https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/liability-and-insurance/tortious-interference.html https://smallbusiness.findlaw

It's also potentially tortious interference: https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/liability-and-insurance/tortious-interference.html https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/liability-and-insurance/to...

joshuamorton 6y ago
This seems unlikely. From your link: > For example, Adam could refuse to do business with Bill after learning that Bill has a contract or business relationship with an organization that Adam finds morally distasteful. Adam knows that his business is worth more to Bill than the other organization's and that his refusal to deal is substantially certain to cause Bill to terminate his contractual or business relationship with the other organization. Since his motivation is not improper, Bill's actions would not satisfy a claim of tortious interference by the other organization.
- lliamander 6y ago
  Not in all cases necessarily, but just read the next line: > On the other hand, if Adam means to punish the other organization or put them out of business by taking the advantages of their relationship with Bill away, it is more likely that a tortious interference has occurred.
  - joshuamorton 6y ago
    That's an anticompetitive practice. Which makes sense in the context of a tortious interference claim between two businesses. But you can't sue <the collection of 20,000 twitter users> for collectively boycotting a business for doing a thing they disapprove of. If Sleeping Giants is immune to Tortious Interference claims, so is pretty much everyone else in this context.
    - lliamander 6y ago
      > That's an anticompetitive practice. There's no evidence that Adam and the targeted business are in competition. Having intent to harm is sufficient to be a relevant factor. > But you can't sue <the collection of 20,000 twitter users> for collectively boycotting a business for doing a thing they disapprove of. If Sleeping Giants is immune to Tortious Interference claims, so is pretty much everyone else in this context. That's also not an example of cancellation that we've been talking about in this thread, so that's irrelevant.

It's also potentially tortious interference: https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/liability-and-insurance/tortious-interference.html https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/liability-and-insurance/to...

joshuamorton 6y ago

This seems unlikely. From your link: > For example, Adam could refuse to do business with Bill after learning that Bill has a contract or business relationship with an organization that Adam finds morally distasteful. Adam knows that his business is worth more to Bill than the other organization's and that his refusal to deal is substantially certain to cause Bill to terminate his contractual or business relationship with the other organization. Since his motivation is not improper, Bill's actions would not satisfy a claim of tortious interference by the other organization.

lliamander 6y ago
Not in all cases necessarily, but just read the next line: > On the other hand, if Adam means to punish the other organization or put them out of business by taking the advantages of their relationship with Bill away, it is more likely that a tortious interference has occurred.
- joshuamorton 6y ago
  That's an anticompetitive practice. Which makes sense in the context of a tortious interference claim between two businesses. But you can't sue <the collection of 20,000 twitter users> for collectively boycotting a business for doing a thing they disapprove of. If Sleeping Giants is immune to Tortious Interference claims, so is pretty much everyone else in this context.
  - lliamander 6y ago
    > That's an anticompetitive practice. There's no evidence that Adam and the targeted business are in competition. Having intent to harm is sufficient to be a relevant factor. > But you can't sue <the collection of 20,000 twitter users> for collectively boycotting a business for doing a thing they disapprove of. If Sleeping Giants is immune to Tortious Interference claims, so is pretty much everyone else in this context. That's also not an example of cancellation that we've been talking about in this thread, so that's irrelevant.