Sonat Exploration Co. v. Cudd Pressure Control, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• commenting that “place of business is arguably significant because oilfield indemnity statutes are intended to protect contractors from unfair bargaining”
• declining to apply the presumption because no state “loomed large” during negotiations
• giving decisive weight to the (c) the relevant policies of other interested states and the relative interests of those states in the determination of the particular issue, (d) the protection of justified expectations, (e) the basic policies underlying the particular field of law, (f
• in discussing choice-of-law provisions, stating that parties may choose contract provisions, but \must make that choice themselves\
• “It is of course true that an appellate court cannot reverse on a ground an appellant has never raised.”
• “It is of course true that an appellate court cannot reverse on a ground an appellant has never raised.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).