Opinion ID: 2976049
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Heading: Intentional Conduct

Text: Popovich contends that the limitation of remedies clause should apply only to inadvertent mistakes, not intentional conduct, based on the testimony of Gary Casson, who testified that the clause is boilerplate in the music industry to protect record companies from inadvertent mistakes. New York courts enforce limitation of liability clauses despite one party’s argument that it should not be enforced because the breach was intentional. See Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Noble Lowndes Intern., Inc., 643 N.E.2d 504, 507 (N.Y. 1994). In Metropolitan Life, the New York court explained that a limitation on liability is an allocation of risk to which both parties agree, and courts should let the parties lie in the bed they made. Id. (citing 5 Corbin, Contracts, § 1068, at 386). Professor Corbin notes exceptions for contracts of adhesion and breaches that are also tortious—neither of which is the case here. Id. Even assuming there is case law to support this legal theory, it is not clear that any breach was intentional.