Holding that plaintiff cannot recover damages under Cal. Bus. Prof. Code § 17200 unless plaintiff has "an ownership interest in the money it seeks to recover"
Holding that title insurer owed no duty of ordinary care to non-clients, commenting that "[i]n the business arena it would be unprecedented to impose a duty on one actor to operate its business in a manner that would ensure the financial success of transactions between third parties"
Holding that interference with plaintiff's performance may give rise to a claim for interference with contractual relations if plaintiff's performance is made more costly or more burdensome
109 Cal.App.4th 944 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003) Cited 432 times
Holding that extrinsic evidence could be used to help determine the meaning of an integrated contract, provided that the extrinsic evidence "is relevant to prove a meaning to which the language of the instrument is reasonably susceptible."
Holding that the tort of intentional or negligence interference with prospective economic advantage requires that a defendant's interference be wrongful "by some measure beyond the fact of the interference itself
141 Cal.App.4th 199 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006) Cited 288 times
Finding that the conditions for performance as to a purported contractual duty to "take all steps necessary to obtain adequate funding and to formally launch the company" were "fatally uncertain."
Holding "a plaintiff may recover damages for intentional interference with an at-will employment relation under the same California standard applicable to claims for intentional interference with prospective economic advantage"
106 Cal.App.4th 1219 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003) Cited 273 times
Finding claims within the ambit of subdivision (e) where they arose from "communications to either the City or Lennar involving the proposed development of Crystal Bay and other bayfront property"