Breaux v. Halliburton Energy Services

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that “the agreement unambiguously encompasses indemnity for [the company] and ‘its contractors’”
• “A maritime contract containing an indemnity agreement ... should be read as a whole and its words given their plain meaning unless the provision is ambiguous.”
• “no sound basis” for concluding that later contract superseded earlier contract when contracts were not “between the same parties”
• “Where ‘the written instrument is so worded 24 that it can be given a certain definite legal meaning or interpretation, then it is not ambiguous, 25 and this Court will construe the contract as a matter of law.’”
• “Where ‘the written instrument is so worded 8 that it can be given a certain definite legal meaning or interpretation, then it is not ambiguous, 9 10 and this Court will construe the contract as a matter of law.’”
• words in contracts given plain meaning unless ambiguous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).