CAE Vanguard, Inc. v. Newman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “[t]he provision of the agreement which states that a court may reform the covenant is of no effect. Private parties may not confer upon the court powers which it does not possess.”
• holding “[t]he provision of the agreement which states that a court may reform the covenant is of no effect. Private parties may not confer upon the court powers which it does not possess.”
• finding a contract provision permitting reformation “is of no effect ... parties may not confer upon the court powers which it does not possess”
• reversing trial court’s reformation of unreasonable covenant; stating that it is not the court’s function to reform unreasonable covenants, and that contract provision inviting such reformation may not confer on a court a power it does not possess
• reversing trial court’s reformation of unreasonable covenant; stating that it is not the court’s function to reform unreasonable covenants, and that a contract provision inviting such reformation may not confer on a court a power it does not possess

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).