LOS CARNEROS COMMUNITY v. PENFIELD & SMITH

No. B105545.

76 Cal.Rptr.2d 396 (1998)

LOS CARNEROS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. PENFIELD & SMITH ENGINEERS, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

Review Granted October 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman & Richards, Richard M. Coleman, Laurie J. Richards, Los Angeles, Reicker, Clough, Pfau & Pyle and Kurt H. Pyle, Santa Barbara, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Collins, Collins, Muir & Traver, Samuel J. Muir, Pasadena, Stephen W. Olson, Diane M. Matsinger, Santa Barbara, Hatch and Parent, Peter N. Brown, Stanley M. Roden and Colin L. Pearce, Santa Barbara, for Defendants and Respondents.


GILBERT, Associate Justice.

A company wishes to build a commercial development project. It hires an expert to render engineering services for the project and to speak on behalf of the project before government agencies. The company sues its expert and a rival company alleging that the expert wrongfully agreed with the rival company not to criticize the rival company's project in exchange for a promise of future business from the rival company.

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