California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Kasparian v. County of Los Angeles, 38 Cal.App.4th 242, 45 Cal.Rptr.2d 90 (Cal. App. 1995):
To resolve this case we must first understand and apply the controlling principles applicable to the tort of interference with prospective economic advantage. The elements of that tort are: "(1) an economic relationship between [the plaintiff and some third person] containing the probability of future economic benefit to the [plaintiff], (2) knowledge by the defendant of the existence of the relationship, (3) intentional acts on the part of the defendant designed to disrupt the relationship, (4) actual disruption of the relationship, [and] (5) damages to the plaintiff proximately caused by the acts of the defendant." (Buckaloo v. Johnson (1975) 14 Cal.3d 815, 827, 122 Cal.Rptr. 745, 537 P.2d 865.)
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