United States Tenth Circuit

Under Oklahoma law on tortious interference with a contractual relationship, defendant acted in good faith in threatening to initiate legal action to protect its publication rights if plaintiff's distributor printed parody trading cards of Major League Baseball players. The litigation privilege was properly applied with respect to a libel claim against defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2003
• Published 07/14/2003

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, McKAY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James W. Tilly (Craig A. Fitzgerald with him on the briefs) of Tilly & Fitzgerald, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Russell S. Jones, Jr., of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C., Kansas City, MO (Susan C. Hascall of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C., Overland Park, KS, with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.