Swavely v. Freeway Ford Truck Sales, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts cannot enforce contractual provisions that violate public policy but that \public policy itself strongly favors freedom to contract\
• explaining that courts cannot enforce contractual provisions that violate public policy but that “public policy itself strongly favors freedom to contract”
• “There is no exception to the rule that a contract that violates a valid statute is void, as the law cannot enforce a contract which it prohibits”
• “There is no exception to the rule that a contract that violates a valid statute is void, as the law cannot enforce a contract which it prohibits”
• “Because public policy itself strongly favors freedom to contract, [a] *** court will not declare a contract illegal unless it expressly contravenes the law ***.” (Emphasis added and internal quotation marks omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).