Gordon v. Lance

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 | “[a] witness may be inaccurate, contradictory and even untruthful in some respects and yet be entirely credible in the essentials of his testimony” | 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 free from territorial restrictions wrongfully imposed by competitors | right to solicit business accounts | right to solicit business accounts | right to solicit business accounts | right to solicit business accounts | right to solicit business accounts