Fortec Constructors v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the existence of a patent ambiguity “raises the duty of inquiry, regardless of the reasonableness of the [private contracting party’s] interpretation”
• “The existence of a patent ambiguity in the contract raises the duty of inquiry, regardless of the reasonableness of the contractor's interpretation”
• “This court must be guided by the well accepted and basic principle that an interpretation that gives a reasonable meaning to all parts of the contract will be preferred to one that leaves portions of the contract meaningless.”
• “This court must be guided by the well accepted and basic principle that an interpretation that gives a reasonable meaning to all parts of the contract will be preferred to one that leaves portions of the contract meaningless.”
• “This court must be guided by the well accepted and basic principle that an interpretation that gives a reasonable meaning to all parts óf the contract will be preferred to one that leaves portions of the contract meaningless.”
• “This court must be guided by the well accepted and basic principle that an interpretation that gives a reasonable meaning to all parts of the contract will be preferred to one that leaves portions of the contract meaningless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).