ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO., INC. v. DANA CORP.

No. S114054.

22 Cal.Rptr.3d 352 (2004)

34 Cal.4th 979

102 P.3d 268

ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DANA CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Edwin V. Woodsome, Jr., D. Barclay Edmundson; Howrey Simon Arnold & White, David G. Meyer, Michael L. Resch, Los Angeles; Bowman and Brooke, Lawrence R. Ramsey, Gardena; Cardelli, Hebert & Lanfear and Thomas G. Cardelli for Defendant and Appellant.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Fred G. Bennett, Robert J. Becher and Sarah J. Cole, Los Angeles, for Northrop Grumman Corporation and The California Manufacturers & Technology Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland and Robert A. Olson, Los Angeles, for Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Tim A. Goetz, Torrance; Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, Raymond E. Hane III, Los Angeles; and Edward J. Horowitz, Pacific Palisades, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Kaye Scholer, George T. Caplan, Los Angeles, Steven Rosenthal, San Francisco and Julian Brew, Los Angeles, for EADS Astrium, S.A.S. and EADA Astrium, Ltd., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian and Brenton F. Goodrich, Los Angeles, for California State Association of Counties and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

James C. Sturdevant, San Francisco, for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Elizabeth J. Cabraser, San Francisco, Jonathan D. Selbin, New York, NY and Lisa J. Leebove, San Francisco, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Eric A. Isaacson, Pamela M. Parker, Kevin K. Green, San Diego; Hagens Berman and Kevin P. Roddy, Cambridge, MA, for National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


BROWN, J.

In this case, we decide whether the economic loss rule, which in some circumstances bars a tort action in the absence of personal injury or physical damage to other property, applies to claims for intentional misrepresentation or fraud in the performance of a contract. Because plaintiff Robinson Helicopter Company, Inc.'s (Robinson) fraud and intentional misrepresentation claim, with respect to Dana Corporation...

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