United Wholesale Liquor Co. v. Brown-Forman Distillers Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that \the forum may decline to apply the out-of-state law if it offends the public policy of New Mexico\
• stating that “the forum may decline to apply the out-of-state law if it offends the public policy of New Mexico”
• stating that “[g]reat damage is done where businesses cannot count on certainty in their legal relationships and strong reasons must support a court when it interferes in a legal relationship voluntarily assumed by the parties”
• “New Mexico adheres to a traditional conflicts of law analysis contained in Restatement (First) of Conflicts of Law (1934).”
• “The voluntary relinquishment of a statutory protection is consistent with our policy favoring the right to contract.”
• “The voluntary relinquishment of a statutory protection is consistent with our policy favoring the right to contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).