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Extract to table / memo-california-tortious-interference-law.docx
memo-california-tortious-interference-law.docx
Parties
Vantor Holdings Corp
Cascade Retail Holdings Inc
Hemsworth Consumer Products LLC
Tridale Manufacturing Inc
Orion Lifestyle Brands Corp
Camberwell Corp
See Applied Equipment Corp
Litton Saudi Arabia Ltd
Dates
October 8, 2021
September 7, 2021
October 18, 2021
July 1, 2018
June 30, 2022
March 15, 2019
March 14, 2022
January 10, 2020
January 9, 2022
May 10, 2021
Amounts
$87.4
$14.6
$12.5
$8.3
$4.2
$31.0
$28.0
$19.5
$6.1
$11.3
Obligations
Under California law, a plaintiff asserting a claim for tortious interference with contractual relations must prove each of the following five elements: 1
Under California law, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant had actual knowledge of the existence of the contract at the time of the alleged interference
4th at 56 ("The plaintiff must show that the defendant knew of the existence of the contractual relationship
The better view, supported by the Restatement and the weight of California authority, is that the defendant must have sufficient knowledge to understand that its conduct would interfere with a specific contractual obligation
The interference must be with the specific contractual terms alleged to have been breached
However, a critical factual question — which must be resolved through discovery — is whether the suppliers exercised their termination-for-convenience clauses before entering into the Cascade agreements