Justice Dept. agrees to settle with scientist Stephen Hatfill, who was identified by then Attorney General Ashcroft as a "Person of Interest" in an investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks on the Congress. Hatfill was followed 24/7 by FBI agents, and lost a $150,000 per yearuniversity teaching job on the order of Justice officials. The DoJ has agreed to pay Dr. Hatfill and his attorneys $2.825 million and to fund an annuity paying him $150,000 per year for life. Hatfill v. Mukasey, #03-cv-1793, 2008 U.S. Dist. Lexis 17756 (D.D.C.); #08-5049, 2008 U.S. App. Lexis 5755 & 6242 (D.C. Cir.).
     Article: Tortious Interference with Contract in the At-Will Employment Context, by Frank J. Cavico, 79 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 503 (Summer, 2002). Article: Tortious Interference with Business Relations: 'The Other White Meat' of Employment Law, Alex B. Long, 84 Minn. L. Rev. 863, 879 (2000).
     Instructors at a college's police academy that had testified against police officers as expert witnesses in an excessive force case claimed that their contracts were not renewed in retaliation for the testimony. The plaintiffs asserted a valid claim under Texas state law for tortious interference with instructors' contract relationship with the academy, and the defendants were not entitled to official immunity from that claim. Kinney v. Weaver, #00-40557, 301 F.3d 253 (5th Cir. 2002).