Opinion ID: 1506724
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Heading: Armenio's Actions to Deprive the Corporation of Its Opportunity to Purchase Mendon

Text: Armenio also claimed that Caesar acted independently to initiate the purchase of Mendon and that the corporation had abandoned its efforts in that regard. For the same reasons detailed above, I believe that the trial justice and the jury were entitled to conclude that the corporation's efforts to pursue the Mendon opportunity were secretly usurped and interfered with by Armenio and his fellow buying group of investors. Furthermore, the mere fact that Caesar may have acted independently to initiate the purchase of Mendon should not shield Armenio from liability when, despite his being fully aware of the corporation's expressed and demonstrated interest in Mendon, he decided to buy a piece of this competing business for himself without first offering it to the corporation or ascertaining whether its interest had ended.