Ralph W. Caton D/B/A Caton Sales Company v. Leach Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• intimating that a choice-of-law provision addressing the entirety of the contracting parties’ relationship would bind the parties to the selected state’s laws for all claims
• concluding choice of law clause applied only to contract claims where it provided: “[t]his Agreement shall be construed under the laws of the State of California.”
• “Texas has a significant interest in remedying civil injury to Texas citizens through tort liability and also in defining the outer limits of tort liability.”
• choice of law provision limited to contract interpretation or enforcement applied to breach of covenant of good faith because the claim depended on construction of the contract
• choice-of-law provision stating that the agreement \shall be construed under\ California law does not preclude causes of action for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing or quantum meruit under Texas law
• breach of implied covenant claims are breach of contract claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).