Alta Berkeley VI C v. v. Omneon, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that liquidation preferences “must derive from the provisions of the certificate of incorporation that created those preferential rights”
• holding that “the Court has honored the basic tenet of contract construction that requires courts to give meaning to all contractual terms and discourages courts from endorsing a construction that would render any contractual term superfluous”
• observing that a contract term is ambiguous only if it is “fairly or reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning”
• observing that a contract term is ambiguous only if it is “fairly or reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning”
• noting that the phrase “provided, however” “excepts or ‘carves out’” what follows
• requiring the court to give words in a contract their ordinary meaning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).