Lewis Jorge Construction Management, Inc. v. Pomona Unified School District

Opinion

KENNARD, J.

A school district terminates a construction contract when the contractor, four and a half months after the promised due date, still has not finished the project. The contractor’s bonding company then hires another firm to complete the project, but it suspends then later reduces the amount of bonding for the contractor. The latter successfully sues the school district for breach of contract, recovering in damages some $3 million for potentially lost profits, which the contractor claimed it would have earned on prospective construction contracts it never won because of its…