Gordon v. Lance

How later courts describe this case

• recognizing intangible right to solicit business free of wrongfully imposed territorial restrictions as “property” under Hobbs Act
• no distinction made between liability standard of actual malice for public official and punitive damages standard of actual malice
• "[a] witness may be inaccurate, contradictory and even untruthful in some respects and yet be entirely credible in the essentials of his testimony"
• trial judge’s presiding at bail hearing where defendants’ criminal records disclosed no grounds for disqualification
• rubbish collector’s surrender of right to solicit additional customers sufficient to invoke Hobbs Act jurisdiction where future out-of-state orders for trash receptacles for new customers were thereby curtailed
• right to solicit business free from territorial restrictions wrongfully imposed by competitors
• West Virginia Supreme Court invalidated provisions of the state's Constitution and statutes which required that a 60 percent majority of voters in referendum elections approve bonded indebtedness proposals
• right to solicit business accounts