BKCAP, LLC v. CAPTEC Franchise Trust 2000-1

How courts have described this case

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• instructing that the court must construe a contract’s language “to give meaning to all of the contract’s words, terms, and phrases”
• noting that courts often “reject one party’s strained, literal reading of contract language in favor of the other party’s reasonable, commonsense reading”
• where literal application of text would “lead to absurd results” and “thwart the obvious intentions of its drafters,” we cannot rely solely on plain language
• discussing this principle in contract law
• discussing this principle in contract law
• discussing this principle in contract law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).