Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, William X. Walsh wrote:

> If the sole purpose of me buying property is to deny you use of that
> desirable property, am I guilty of a crime?

Not a crime, but a tort (in many states).  Tortious interference with
prospective business advantage.  Or, the venerable "prima facie tort"
which "posits a general theory of intentional tort under which the
intentional infliction of injury without justification is actionable."  
See generally 79 Ky. L.J. 519 Kentucky Law Journal 1990/1991 THE MODERN
PRIMA FACIE TORT DOCTRINE Kenneth J. Vandevelde

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