McWane Inc. v. Crow Chicago Industrial, Inc., and Halff Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• agreeing that the contract was unambiguous and that the district court correctly dismissed the claim
• affirming dismissal of breach of contract claim where the agreement unambiguously showed that defendant owed no duty to conduct a due diligence investigation
• “If the district court determines that the contract is unambiguous, it may determine its meaning as a matter of law.”
• “If the district court determines that the contract is unambiguous, it may determine its meaning as a matter of law.”
• “[T]he meaning of the contract must be determined from the words or language used, and a court cannot place a construction on the contract which is contrary to the plain and obvious meaning of the language.”
• “[T]he meaning of the contract must be determined from the words or language used, and a court cannot place a construction on the contract which is contrary to the plain and obvious meaning of the language.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).