Supreme Court of California

The economic loss rule does not bar a claim for intentional misrepresentation or fraud in the performance of a contract.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2004
• Published 12/23/2004

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Edwin V. Woodsome, Jr., D. Barclay Edmundson;  Howrey Simon Arnold & White, David G. Meyer, Michael L. Resch, Los Angeles;  Bowman and Brooke, Lawrence R. Ramsey, Gardena;  Cardelli, Hebert & Lanfear and Thomas G. Cardelli for Defendant and Appellant., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Fred G. Bennett, Robert J. Becher and Sarah J. Cole, Los Angeles, for Northrop Grumman Corporation and The California Manufacturers & Technology Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland and Robert A. Olson, Los Angeles, for Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Tim A. Goetz, Torrance;  Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, Raymond E. Hane III, Los Angeles;  and Edward J. Horowitz, Pacific Palisades, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Kaye Scholer, George T. Caplan, Los Angeles, Steven Rosenthal, San Francisco and Julian Brew, Los Angeles, for EADS Astrium, S.A.S. and EADA Astrium, Ltd., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian and Brenton F. Goodrich, Los Angeles, for California State Association of Counties and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., James C. Sturdevant, San Francisco, for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Elizabeth J. Cabraser, San Francisco, Jonathan D. Selbin, New York, NY and Lisa J. Leebove, San Francisco, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Eric A. Isaacson, Pamela M. Parker, Kevin K. Green, San Diego;  Hagens Berman and Kevin P. Roddy, Cambridge, MA, for National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.