Lewis Jorge Construction Management, Inc. v. Pomona Unified School District

How courts have described this case

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

• holding breach did not “directly or necessarily cause [contractor’s] loss,” where contractor alleged breach caused contractor’s surety to reduce contractor’s “bonding” rating, and that reduction in bonding rating caused loss of other prospective contracts
• noting that under California law, consequential damages are recoverable in certain circumstances
• “[T]he plaintiff is entitled to damages that are equivalent to the benefit of the plaintiff’s contractual bargain.”
• “The goal is to put the 13 plaintiff in as good a position as he or she would have occupied if the defendant had 14 not breached the contract.”
• “The goal is to put the 16 plaintiff in as good a position as he or she would have occupied if the defendant had 17 not breached the contract.”
• “The goal is 25 to put the plaintiff in as good a position as he or she would have occupied if the 26 defendant had not breached the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).