Commonwealth v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

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• concluding that the court decides the interpretation of unambiguous contract terms as a matter of law
• considering whether ex parte communication would appear “to a reasonable onlooker ... [to be] prejudicial, providing the State with an advantage or depriving Foundation of the opportunity to argue its ease”
• “In the absence of any ambiguity, a question of construction arising upon the face of the instrument is for the court to decide.” (citation omitted)
• same, applied to a public contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).