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· 12/23/2008

Grand Hyatt Washington v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

Citations

  • 963 A.2d 142
  • 2008 D.C. App. LEXIS 489
  • 2008 WL 5330226

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Settlement agreements . . . are contractual in nature and are interpreted under the same rules as contracts[,]” meaning “the written language will govern the parties’ rights . . . .”
  • “Settlement agreements . . . are contractual in nature and are 7 interpreted under the same rules as contracts. . . . [T]he written language will govern the parties’ rights, unless it is not susceptible of clear meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Reid, Blackburne-Rigsby, Pryor

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