Westside Center Associates v. Safeway Stores 23, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding plaintiff failed to state claim; rejecting argument that tort of intentional interference protected plaintiffs “relationship with the entire market of all possible but yet unidentified buyers for its property”
• in turn citing Della Penna, 11 Cal.4th at 393, 45 Cal.Rptr.2d 436, 902 P.2d 740 (emphasis in Gemini removed)
• “Without an existing relationship with an identifiable buyer, [plaintiffs] expectation of a future sale was ‘at most a hope for an economic relationship and a desire for future benefit’”
• Plaintiff did not succeed where the economic relationship was purely hypothetical

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).