Comerica Bank v. Lexington Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• noting with respect to insurance policy that “[t]he contract language will be given its ordinary and plain meaning, rather than a technical or strained construction.”
• “district court was within its discretion to take judicial notice of the dictionary definition of the word “arising” when interpreting contract
• “With a 12(b)(1) motion, a court may weigh the evidence 4 to determine whether it has jurisdiction.”
• “[T]he district court correctly refused to insert the distinction between corporate and representative capacity which plaintiff was advocating, because the distinction was not to be found anywhere in the insurance policy.”
• “District courts have ‘inherent power’ to control their dockets.”
• “Under Michigan law, the office of interpretation or construction is to ascertain the intention of the parties from the words which have been used; [t]he court is not at liberty to insert words which have been omitted, and which are not to be found in the instrument.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).