Carnival Corp. v. Mendoza

How courts have described this case

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

• court will enforce contract as drafted absent showing of unconscionability, mistake, fraud, or other countervailing policy reason
• trial court’s factual findings binding on this court unless clearly erroneous in light of all evidence
• trial court’s factual findings binding on this court unless clearly erroneous in light of all evidence
• contracts must be enforced as drafted, not enforced to relieve party from difficulties
• “For a valid modification to exist, there must be mutual assent to the meaning and conditions of the modification and the parties must assent to the same thing in the same sense.”
• “[i]t is axiomatic that courts do not rewrite contracts for the parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).