Abbott v. Amoco Oil Co.

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• observing that duty of good faith and fair dealing limits manner of exercise of discretion by party vested with discretion; discretion must be exercised reasonably with proper motive, not arbitrarily, capriciously, or inconsistent with reasonable expectations of parties
• “[U]nfair advantage is the key to differentiating between the types of adhesion contracts .... ”
• “[T]he dealers cannot complain when Amoco merely exercises the discretion the dealers allowed Amoco to possess. Bad faith or unfairness needs to be pleaded affirmatively in a case like the present one.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).