Edward H. Mathews, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Sears Pension Plan and Sears, Roebuck & Company

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• “In limited circumstances, however, parties are allowed to present extrinsic evidence to demonstrate that although the contract looks clear, anyone who understood the context of its creation would understand that it doesn’t mean what it seems to mean.”
• “If a written contract is clear, that is, if reading it one doesn't sense any ambiguity, gap, or contradiction that makes one doubt one's ability to understand the contract merely by reading it, the court normally won't look further for evidence of meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).