United States v. Norfus

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a choice of law clause “encompasse[s] all claims ‘arising from or related to’ the agreement, regardless of whether they were characterized as contract or tort claims and including ‘tortious breaches of duties emanating from the agreement.’”
• dismissing fraud claim where plaintiff’s allegations of reliance were simply “acts 7 constitut[ing] nothing more than [plaintiff’s] usual performance”
• the economic loss rule 19 provides that no tort cause of action lies where the breach of duty is synonymous with a 20 contractual promise
• “this Court, like others in California, doubts that Robinson Helicopter has any application outside the products liability context in which it was decided”
• “The Court can give Sagittarius no weight because the Court cannot discern whether the contract at issue there resembles the one here.”
• economic-loss doctrine bars 13 fraud and negligent-misrepresentation claims where plaintiff’s “tort claims consist of nothing 14 more than [defendant’s] alleged failure to make good on its contractual promises”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).