Rice v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] contract must be interpreted so as to give effect to, not nullify, its general or primary purpose.”
• “[U]nder New York law, “[e]ffect and meaning must be given to every term of the contract, and reasonable effort must be made to harmonize all of its terms.”
• “Effect and meaning must be given to every term of the contract, and reasonable effort must be made to harmonize all of its terms.... [T]he contract must be interpreted so as to give effect to, not nullify, its general or primary purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).