Abi-Najm v. Concord Condominium, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “the question whether the economic loss doctrine applies requires a court first to determine ‘whether a cause of action sounds in contract or tort’” (quoting Richmond Metro., 256 Va. at 558)
• holding that “the question whether the economic loss doctrine applies requires a court first to determine ‘whether a cause of action sounds in contract or tort’” (quoting Richmond Metro., 256 Va. at 558)
• holding that when the alleged fraud occurred “before a contract between the two parties came into existence, . . . it cannot logically follow that the duty . . . allegedly breached was one that finds its source in the [c]ontracts”
• stating that, when a circuit court decides a cause of action on a demurrer, “we review the circuit court’s judgment de novo”
• stating that false representation of promise with a ‘present intention not to perform’ was fraudulent intent
• noting that a contract permitted one of the parties to “substitute substantially equivalent materials and finishes” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).