APPLIED EQUIPMENT CORP. v. LITTON SAUDI ARABIA LTD.

Docket No. S030637.

7 Cal.4th 503 (1994)

869 P.2d 454

28 Cal. Rptr.2d 475

APPLIED EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LITTON SAUDI ARABIA LIMITED et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

March 31, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Arthur W. Homan, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Robert J. Stumpf, Jr., and David Eiseman for Defendants and Appellants.

Jennie M. Crowley, Victoria Thomas McGhee, John W. Patton, Jr., Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman, Cutler & Cutler, Felice R. Cutler and Robert A. Philipson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Hillel Chodos and Michael A. Chodos for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

Can a contracting party be held liable in tort for conspiracy to interfere with its own contract? Following a line of appellate cases, the Court of Appeal answered this question in the affirmative. Our study of applicable precedent and policy yields a contrary answer. We will therefore reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeal.

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