Broadley v. Mashpee Neck Marina, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court's rewriting of an overly broad and unenforceable exculpatory clause under admiralty law was against sound public policy
• showing a lack of specific circumstances in which liability is limited
• “The doctrine pertinent where a contract provision is unlawfully overbroad is that which permits a court to sever or divide provisions that are unlawful[ly over broad] as written, retaining those provisions or applications of them that are permissible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).