April Enterprises, Inc. v. KTTV

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party can be liable in tort for actions authorized by the contract
• holding that a party can be liable in tort for actions authorized by the contract
• refusing to adopt Maryland’s broad view, opting instead to apply discovery rule as required by individual facts
• applying discovery rule to certain contract breaches where harm will not reasonably be discovered until a future time
• construing contract terms that were “inherently contradictory” against defendant and holding that plaintiff could this state a claim for “breach of implied covenant of fair dealing in a contract”
• plaintiff sued defendant for erasing videotapes of television shows, although the contract explicitly authorized such erasure; jury awarded $14 million in punitive damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).