Briggs v. Newton

OPINION

FABE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this appeal, two contractors, Ray Briggs and Gilbert Shea, claim that William Christensen interfered with their contractual relationship with business owner Jim Hess and made defamatory statements about them to Hess. The superior court granted summary judgment in favor of Christensen for three reasons: (1) Briggs lacked standing because the suit belonged to his bankruptcy estate and could only be brought by the trustee; (2) the interference claim was collaterally es-topped by a district court’s finding in a prior suit that Briggs and Shea breached their…