Carleno Coal Sales, Inc. v. Ramsay Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a contractual clause providing that a party “may” give sixty days’ notice of intent to terminate the agreement early reflected the exclusive method available for early termination
• holding that termination prior to the contract’s required notice-and-cure period constituted breach of the contract entitling the nonbreaching party “to at least nominal damages,” but was not a total bar to the breaching party’s contract-based claims
• reading “may” as mandatory where reading it as permissive “would be to give no meaning whatever to an entire paragraph of the contract, and to interpret it as mere surplusage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).