Union Carbide Corporation v. Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• “Hardship is a consequence [of material alteration], not a criterion. (Surprise can be either.)”
• “Hardship is a consequence, not a criterion. (Surprise can be either.)”
• “If a term added by the offeree in his acceptance works a material alteration of the offer, the acceptance is still effective, but the term is not: that is, the contract is enforceable minus the term the offeree tried to add.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).