City of Dillingham v. CH2M Hill Northwest, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• construing legislature's rejection of amendment allowing limitation of liability clauses as intent to prohibit such clauses
• construing a statute to preclude contractual limitations of liability in construction contracts
• “a party may contract to limit liability for damages resulting from breach of contract, but ... such a provision is not effective in case he acts fraudulently or in bad faith.”
• “The plainer the meaning of the statute, the more persuasive any legislative history to the contrary must be.” (citing Peninsula Mktg. Ass’n v. State, 817 P.2d 917, 922 (Alaska 1991))
• “The plainer the meaning of the statute, the more persuasive any legislative history to the contrary must be.” (citing Peninsula Mktg. Ass’n v. State, 817 P.2d 917, 922 (Alaska 1991))
• “Liability for ‘knowing,’ or ‘bad faith’ breaches can never be limited.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).