Litowitz v. Dade County

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• explaining that party “may not escape contractual liability by reliance upon the failure of a condition precedent where the party wrongfully prevented performance of that condition precedent” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• considering release that was not pled as affirmative defense “because the Complaint incorporate[d] the Termination Agreement by reference”
• considering implications of general release at the pleading stage where it appeared in a document incorporated by reference in the complaint
• “[General releases] are an important tool for settling disputes precisely because they are designed to provide ‘complete peace.’”
• “[General releases] are an important tool for settling disputes precisely because they are designed to provide ‘complete peace.’”
• “The [g]eneral [r]elease explicitly extinguished all claims, known or unknown, arising out of or in any way related to the . . . [a]greements.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).