Dos Santos v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. District

How courts have described this case

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

• commenting that the doctrine resides in “an area of the law dominated by generalized statements that provide little guidance”
• conceding that the “close relationship standard is so vague as to be unworkable”
• rejecting the closely related test to apply a \more strict\ third-party beneficiary doctrine but ultimately holding that the non-signatory defendant consented to jurisdiction because he was the agreement's intended beneficiary
• rejecting the closely related test to apply a “more strict” third-party beneficiary doctrine but ultimately holding that the non-signatory defendant consented to jurisdiction because he was the agreement’s intended beneficiary
• neverthe- less applying the “closely related” and third-party beneficiary doctrines to bind a non-signatory
• “whether to- grant such a motion rests within the discretion of the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).