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· 9/14/1984

Ohio Power Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Ohio Edison Company, Intervenor

Citations

  • 744 F.2d 162
  • 240 U.S. App. D.C. 147
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 18613

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[S]pecific clauses prevail over general clauses [when] the clauses stand irreconcilably in conflict.”
  • summarily rejecting claim where parties were not similarly situated
  • “[W]hen the meaning of [a] contract cannot be determined from its text and structure or from the application of canons of contract interpretation,” the court may consider extrinsic evidence “to discern the meaning that the parties intended to attribute to the ambiguous formulation.”

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Judges: Tamm, Mikva, Bazelon

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