Iowa Fuel & Minerals, Inc. v. Iowa State Board of Regents

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that contracts are interpreted as a whole and preference is given to interpretations that give all terms a reasonable, lawful, and effective meaning
• holding that “when there are ambiguities in a contract, they are strictly construed against the drafter”
• holding that ambiguities in a contract are construed against the drafter
• noting that particular words and phrases in a contract should not be interpreted in isolation
• indicating that the preferred interpretation of a contract leaves no part of it superfluous
• stating where a contract has both “general and specific provisions on a particular issue, the specific provisions are controlling”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).