Shannon L. Haslund v. Simon Property Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]f the choice of price could be delegated to a court it would be the court and not the parties that was the contract maker.”
• “A ‘plaintiff has the burden of proving damages to a reasonable degree of certainty.’ ”
• “A contract is rightly deemed unenforceable for indefiniteness when it leaves out (1) a crucial term that (2) a court cannot reasonably be asked to supply in the name of interpretation.”
• Court could look to extrinsic evidence to determine whether an apparently ambiguous term promising the employee a one percent equity ownership interest in the employer was sufficiently definite to be an enforceable contract
• “[T]he omission of crucial terms is powerful evidence that no contract was intended.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).