E.I. duPont De Nemours & Co. v. Florida Evergreen Foliage

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the scope of the release at issue did not include a claim for fraudulent inducement of the release itself
• requiring party seeking to set aside release under fraudulent inducement theory to be able to state claim for fraud
• characterizing the issue as \recognizing a fraud exception for general releases\
• characterizing the issue as “recognizing a fraud exception for general releases”
• “Candor and fair-dealing are . . . the hallmark of litigation and required attributes of those who resort to the judicial process.”
• “A release is a form of contract with the consideration typically being the surrender of a claim or cause of action in exchange for the payment of funds or surrender or an offsetting claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).