Graw

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS DREW’S AND PHERNAMBUCQ’S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

This matter comes before the Court on a motion by individual defendants Joseph Drew and Stanley Phernambucq for reconsideration of a portion of the Court’s ruling on their summary judgment motion. The Court denies the motion for reconsideration.

I. Background

This lawsuit concerns plaintiff Graw’s termination from a position with defendant Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Individual defendants Drew and Phernambucq were Graw’s supervisors at the time he was terminated.

On April 21, 1999, the Court issued an order denying in part and granting in part the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. One of the issues considered in that order was the validity of plaintiff Graw’s fourth cause of action, which asserted a claim of intentional interference with economic advantage against the individual defendants. Graw’s complaint alleges that the termination tortiously interfered with his prospective economic relationship with the MTA and that the individual defendants acted “outside the course and scope of [their] authority, and for said individual defendant^]’ benefit and gain.” (1 Am.…