Ritter v. Grady Automotive Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding stand- alone arbitration agreement valid and holding merger clause “does not bar evidence of contemporaneous collateral agreements between the parties”
• applying the collateral contract exception to the parol evidence rule to allow the application of a non-contradictory arbitration agreement that “govern[ed] the relationship between the parties (continued…
• “A merger clause invokes the parol evidence rule, which precludes a court from considering extrinsic evidence of prior or contemporaneous agreements.... ”
• “A merger clause invokes the parol evidence rule, which precludes a court from considering extrinsic evidence of prior or contemporaneous agreements in order to change, alter, or contradict the terms of the integrated contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).