M.J. Paquet, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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

• applying doctrine of impracticability as defined in Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 261
• looking to dictionaries as to the plain meaning of undefined words in a contract
• stating contract terms are generally \given their plain and ordinary meaning\
• \[The purpose of an equitable adjustment is to keep a contractor whole when the Government modifies a contract.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Generally, the terms of an agreement are to be given their plain and ordinary meaning.”
• “An ambiguity in a contract exists if the terms of the contract are susceptible to at least two reasonable alternative interpretations.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).