Melanee Dagnes v. Oxford Place Apartments

How courts have described this case

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• providing that a sufficiently plead breach of contract claim, thereby providing an avenue for relief, “preempt[s] the need to invoke the doctrine of good faith and fair dealing”
• affirming dismissal of a claim for breach of good faith and fair dealing where the express terms of the contract provide the plaintiff a mechanism for obtaining relief
• “[A counterparty] cannot use the doctrine of good faith and fair dealing to complain of the very conduct that the con- tract expressly permits.”
• “Ratification is the affirmance of a prior act done by another, whereby the act is given effect as if done by an agent acting with actual authority.” (quoting RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF AGENCY § 4.01)
• failure to provide an equitable adjustment can constitute breach of contract
• actions by unauthorized government employees do not bind the government

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).