Memorandum Opinion - the Circuit Court for Baltimore City

THE TORTIOUS CONDUCTWhitney was convinced that Strudwick was involved with Weiss’s legal battle forcontrol over MDMSA and has since launched a personal campaign against Strudwick andWeiss to cause injury to them and anyone associated with them. On June 15, 2006 Whitneysent an email to Ramirez, Strudwick’s business partner, threatening litigation, criminalcharges, and public humiliation. Specifically, the email warned that he and Strudwick should“[g]et ready for some criminal and other charges,” which would be publicized “big time inCosta Rica and the U.S.” The email further warned Ramirez that his “partner [Strudwick] isin for the shock of his life.” In a subsequent email on that same day, Whitney warned that“[t]he process has started and you and your family are going to be affected, as is Barry[Strudwick].”On December 22, 2006 Rothstein, counsel for WIN and Whitney, sent an email toStrudwick stating that he had filed a lawsuit against Strudwick, and that threatened “furtherlegal action that is certain to be protracted, expensive and embarrassing” if Strudwick did notcease “all actions pertaining to the Monterey project.” The statement that a lawsuit had beenfiled against Strudwick was false as the actual lawsuit was not filed until over one monthlater on January 29, 2007. The email, which is attached to the complaint, states in part:As you should be aware via the lawsuit filed in New Yorkagainst you, Susan Weiss, and your fellow co-conspirators, thisfirm is senior litigation counsel to the Whitney Group ofcompanies.* * *. . . . As you should now be aware, the lawsuit against you andyour co-conspirators now includes multiple counts implicatingall of you in a conspiracy of unprecedented magnitude.Moreover, we will not only continue to add to and amend the6