http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/30/no-choice-of-law-for-promissory-estoppel-claim/ VA Lawyers Weekly Fri, 24 May 2013 16:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/30/no-choice-of-law-for-promissory-estoppel-claim/comment-page-1/#comment-31374 Brad Marrs Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:35:03 +0000 http://valawyersweekly.com/?p=71154#comment-31374 The key issue here, as in Ward's Equipment, seems to be that the choice-of-law clause specified that non-VA law applied to the contract's interpretation or to disputes arising out of the contract. That would seem to exclude application of the non-VA law to other causes of action. If the choice-of-law provision specified that all aspects of the parties' relationship were governed by the other state's law, it seems to me the outcome would have been different. The key issue here, as in Ward’s Equipment, seems to be that the choice-of-law clause specified that non-VA law applied to the contract’s interpretation or to disputes arising out of the contract. That would seem to exclude application of the non-VA law to other causes of action. If the choice-of-law provision specified that all aspects of the parties’ relationship were governed by the other state’s law, it seems to me the outcome would have been different.

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