Clarys v. Ford Motor Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Allowing a consumer exception to the economic loss doctrine would undermine warranty agreements that are part of any product sale.”
• “Allowing a consumer exception to the economic loss doctrine would undermine warranty agreements that are part of any product sale.”
• interpreting North Dakota’s Tort Reform Act of 1993 to permit “tort actions ... when a defective product causes damage to persons or other property,” but not “when only the defective product has been damaged”
• interpreting North Dakota’s Tort Reform Act of 1993 to permit “tort actions . . . when a defective product causes damage to persons or other property,” but not “when only the defective product has been damaged”
• “The separate and distinct functions served by tort and contract law, upon which the economic loss doctrine is based, apply equally to consumer and business purchasers of defective products.”
• “The separate and distinct functions served by tort and contract law, upon which the economic loss doctrine is based, apply equally to consumer and business purchasers of defective products.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).