Sproul v. Inter-State Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to apply closely-related-and-foreseeable test based on a “concern[] about applying contracts and forum selection clauses to people who did not sign the contract”
• declining to apply closely-related-and-foreseeable test based on a “concern[] about applying contracts and forum selection clauses to people who did not sign the contract”
• declining to enforce forum-selection clause because nonsignatory was not “closely related” to dispute where it issued bonds but was not ultimately liable for them
• declining to apply closely-related-and-foreseeable test based on a “concern[] about applying contracts and forum selection clauses to people who did not sign the contract”
• declining to apply closely-related-and-foreseeable test based on a “concern[] about applying contracts and forum selection clauses to people who did not sign the contract”
• declining, on the facts of the case, to apply the closely related doctrine to bind a state-created instrumentality by a forum-selection clause in a contract it did not sign

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).