Careau & Co. v. Security Pacific Business Credit, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that plaintiff alleged defendants gave a “deceitful and pretextual explanation for such refusal [to perform the contract]”
• stating that breach of the good faith covenant requires “a conscious and deliberate act”
• dismissing plaintiff’s breach of covenant claim because it was duplicative of his breach of contract claim
• discussing the tort and noting that “whether such a concept has any application in non-insurance cases appears to be increasingly problematic”
• stating the elements of a breach of contract claim include a breach and resulting damages
• dismissing 27 implied covenant claim as superfluous where breach of contract and breach of implied covenant 1 2018 WL 3428562, at (N.D. Cal. July 13, 2018

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).