Graphic Assoc. v. Riviana Restaurant

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a non- exclusive contract is normally deemed to be an exception to the duty to mitigate damages
• the doctrine “prevents a party from recovering those damages inflicted by a wrongdoer which the injured party ‘could have avoided without undue risk, burden, or humiliation.’ ” (emphasis supplied
• “The doctrine of avoidable consequences, commonly referred to as a duty to mitigate damages, prevents a party from recovering those damages inflicted by a wrongdoer which the injured party ‘could have avoided without undue risk, burden, or humiliation.’”
• “The doctrine of avoidable consequences, commonly referred to as a duty to mitigate damages, prevents a party from recovering those damages inflicted by a wrongdoer which the injured party ‘could have avoided without undue risk, burden, or humiliation.’”
• “A purchaser [at a car dealership] who breaches his contract to buy an automobile is not entitled to credit against claimed damages for other sales of automobiles made by the dealer” because it is a non-exclusive contract.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).