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Supreme Court Splits on Contract Interpretation Issue


The Modern Problem of Supreme Court Plurality Decision

Recent scholarship assumes the validity of joint opinions, focusing on the interpretation of concurring and plurality opinions rather than on whether split ...

Untangling Jurisdiction and Contract Scope Issues within Intellectual ...

Not only are courts split over which cases "arise under" federal copyright law, but the issues are further muddled by federal policy preempting state con- tract ...

UK Supreme Court delivers landmark judgement relating to the ...

MUR invoked the force majeure provisions of the Contract by giving notice of force majeure and purported to exercise its contractual right to ...

Supreme Court Report, Volume 31, Issue 14

Next, ruled the Court, contract support costs are eligible ... '” The Court found this interpretation reinforced by the “ordinary meaning ...

Explaining the Supreme Court's Interest in Patent Law

disagreement among the circuit courts on a legal issue.9 With a single appellate court deciding issues of patent law, no such splits will ever arise. Second ...

Pernicious Ambiguity in Contracts and Statutes - BrooklynWorks

Part II describes situations in which the problem of pernicious ambiguity arises in both statutory and contrac- tual interpretation. Courts are not of a single ...

What happens if there is a split decision in the Supreme Court?

If the Supreme Court ties for any reason, the court will issue a one-line, unsigned per curiam opinion, typically the following: “The judgment ...

Circuit split - Wikipedia

Despite the desire of the Supreme Court to resolve conflicts between circuit courts, legal scholars disagree about whether circuit splits are ultimately ...

Two Roads Diverged: Statutory Interpretation by the Circuit Courts ...

agreements was 4.32 for cases in which the Supreme Court affirmed the court ... Supreme Court rely on when addressing the statutory interpretation issues.

Resolving a Split: May Courts Order Consolidation of Arbitration ...

like most federal courts, treated the issue as a matter of contract interpretation and ... highest court considering the consolidation issue as applied to ...

Contractual and Covenantal Conceptions of Modern Treaty ...

Only in 2010 has the Supreme Court of Canada become directly en- gaged with the interpretation of these modern Aboriginal treaties. Its engagement comes in a ...

The Law and Economics of Contract Interpretation - Chicago Unbound

Superior Court, 9 Cal. Rptr. 3d 511, 513 (App. 2004). 30. Med Air Tech ... that propels the interpretive issue into court or arbitration. Actually ...

Legal Uniformity in American Courts

circuit splits may also have beneficial effects while the Supreme Court allows a split to ... Supreme Court to address some particular issue. In this sense ...

Unpredictability in Contract Law

1887), a split decision of the Michigan Supreme Court. In Sherwood ... 154 But it rapidly spread to matters where the interpretation of the ...

Lee v. Fisher - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

3d 1020,. 1022 (9th Cir. 2000). In interpreting Gap's forum-selection clause, we apply Delaware's rules of contract interpretation, because “[c] ...

Supreme Court Term Limits | Brennan Center for Justice

Congress has a long history of passing such procedures to speed up recurring must-pass legislation, such as trade agreements, budgets, and ...

SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI

Disputes over the formation of the parties' arbitration agreement and its enforceability or applicability to the dispute at issue have been ...

SCOTUS Resolves Circuit Split Regarding Staying or Dismissing ...

On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that where a district court is presented with a motion to stay and/or dismiss on the ...

Appellant's Reply Brief on the Merits - California Courts

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ... 4th 1369, 1377 [applying Civil. Code and Civil Procedure Code "contract interpretation" rules to interpret. MOU].).

CONTRACTS REVIEW - NYU Law

Hopper, Supreme Court of California, 1958. FACTS: Mattei's real estate contract had a clause stating that the purchase was subject to the buyer obtaining ...