Jay Dee/Mole Joint Venture v. Mayor & City Council

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a “material breach . . . affects the purpose of the contract in an important or vital way.”
• noting that a material breach “discharges the non-breaching party of its duty to perform”
• “Where the contract itself is clear in making a certain event a material breach of that contract, a court must ordinarily respect that contractual provision.”
• although “the City ha[d] not proved, nor really attempted to prove, that it suffered damages as a result of th[e] breach,” it was nonetheless entitled to nominal damages (citing Taylor, 776 A.2d at 651.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).