Fujimoto v. Au

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the statute must take precedence over the terms of the contract” where an exculpatory clause was in direct conflict with a statute
• holding that the circuit court’s sanctioning of the plaintiffs for failure to review a court rule before filing the complaint was an abuse of discretion “[a]bsent a particularized finding of bad faith”
• finding that two corporations were engaged in a joint venture with one another when (1) it was recited in their agreement and (3) they shared a common goal
• requiring circuit court, on remand, to reassess its award of attorneys’ fees and costs in light of the lack of explanation given by the circuit court as to why said fees and costs were awarded
• requiring circuit court, on remand, to reassess its award of attorneys' fees and costs in light of the lack of explanation given by the circuit court as to why said fees and costs were awarded
• finding contract waiving general partners and landowners’ liability unenforceable where limited partners with unequal bargaining power sought to recover their investment in limited partnerships formed to develop real estate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).