Tollefson v. Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego

How courts have described this case

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• implied duty of good faith cannot rewrite a contract to include provisions ... expressly negated by the original
• “[T]here simply cannot exist a valid express contract on one hand and an implied contract on the other, each embracing the identical subject but requiring different results and treatment.”
• the covenant of good faith and fair dealing “cannot be used to imply an obligation which would completely obliterate a right expressly provided by a written contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).