Ford v. Wallace-Bryant

How courts have described this case

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

• disagreeing as to which Restatement should serve as the source of substantive law in the Virgin Islands for liquidated damages
• adopting section 339 of the Restatement (First) of Contracts, relating to liquidated damages
• court should turn to the Restatements, “when no precedents relate specifically to the adjudication of a Virgin Islands dispute”
• courts should turn to the Restatements, “when no precedents relate specifically to the adjudication of a Virgin Islands dispute”
• “since there are no Virgin Islands’ precedents which are directly applicable, we must look in the first instance at the relevant provisions in the Restatement of Law, Contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).