Paper Express, Limited, an Illinois Corporation v. Pfankuch Maschinen Gmbh, a German Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a clause providing “the parties agree that in any dispute jurisdiction and venue shall be in California” was a mandatory forum selection clause
• concluding the last sentence “would be appropriate and meaningful only if the clause were in fact mandatory”
• noting that “a party who agrees to terms ... without understanding or investigating those terms does so at his own peril”
• concluding the last sentence “would be appropriate and meaningful only if the clause were in fact mandatory”
• concluding the last sentence “would be appropriate and meaningful only if the clause were in fact mandatory”
• concluding the last sentence “would be appropriate and meaningful only if the clause were in fact mandatory”

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