Puerto Rico Telephone Co., Inc. v. Sprintcom, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[i]t is a well-known precept for the interpretation of contracts that specific provisions in a contract trump the general provisions”
• “[T]he trier cannot stop at the literal sense, but must fundamentally investigate the intent of the parties and the spirit and purpose of the transaction.”
• “under Puerto Rico law, the doctrine of unjust enrichment does not apply where . . . there is a contract that governs the dispute at issue”
• construing waiver provision in billing dispute between two telephone carriers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).