Swanson v. Image Bank, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “parties may include contractual provisions for resolving controversies in a particular jurisdiction”
• rejecting parties’ attempt to preclude court from applying conflict of laws principles as “unsound and contrary to the intent of [the Restatement]”
• characterizing § 23-355’s treble damages provision as “the damages available upon breach of an employment contract”
• “Generally speaking, ... parties do have the power to determine the terms of their contractual engagements,” particularly when the parties have relatively equal bargaining power
• treble damages are a substantive legal issue subject to the state law selected in a contractual choice of law provision
• “[U]nder the plain language of the statute, the award 16 of treble damages for the bad-faith withholding of wages is discretionary with the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).