Old Harbor Native Corp. v. Afognak Joint Venture

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• determining that whether parties made mutual mistake regarding settlement agreement raised genuine issue of material fact, precluding grant of summary judgment
• discussing the requirements for reformation of a contract based on mutual mistake
• a release is “susceptible to attack under the legal theories of mistake, fraud, and misrepresentation” and a release may be ineffective if a fiduciary breaches his affirmative duty of full disclosure of material facts
• “withdrawal of a member or some other dissolution-triggering event does not end the relationship among the joint venturers because the process of winding up includes the accounting and division of the venture’s assets and debts”

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