Montana v. Gorp

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when “the terms of a written contract are clear, this Court will not rewrite it or give it a construction in conflict with the accepted and plain meaning of the language used”
• stating that “[t]he court must construe the contract only as written and may not modify the plain meaning of the words under the guise of interpretation” (citation omitted)
• relating to court’s authority to modify or vary terms of consent decree

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).