McDonald's Corp. v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding portions of Iowa franchise statute creating perpetual franchise in certain situations constituted substantial impairment to contracts containing provisions setting the length of contracts for specific terms of years
• pointing out that \the articulated overall purpose of the Act is specifically to adjust the balance of power between the contracting parties\ and that the Act implicated no broad societal interest
• pointing out that “the articulated overall purpose of the Act is specifically to adjust the balance of power between the contracting parties” and that the Act implicated no broad societal interest
• allegations that unfair practices can harm consumers, without more, do not sufficiently allege harm for Contract Clause analysis purposes
• allegations that unfair practices can harm consumers, without more, do not sufficiently allege harm for Contract Clause analysis purposes
• allegations that unfair practices can harm consumers, without more, do not sufficiently allege harm for Contract Clause analysis purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).