Fairbanks North Star Borough v. Tundra Tours, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• overturning award of expert fees in excess of guidelines and stressing that the case did not involve “those extraordinary circumstances where the losing party should be punished”
• overturning award of expert fees in excess of Rule 7(c) because case did not present “those extraordinary circumstances where the losing party should be punished”
• using the “parties’ course of dealing” to interpret the contract at issue
• “[T]his court ... has moved away from the cumbersome two-step process of evaluating extrinsic evidence only after a preliminary finding of ambiguity.”
• \[The standard used in reviewing factual findings must be applied where extrinsic evidence is in dispute.\
• in order to give effect to the parties’ reasonable expectations, a court should look to the contract language, relevant extrinsic evidence and case law interpreting similar provisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).