Waechter v. Aluminum Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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

• holding settlement between employee and employer was intended to cover and bar employee’s section 730.5 claim
• noting we evaluate contracts according to the parties’ objective intent, not any “undisclosed intention they may have had in mind, or which occurred’ to them later”
• failure to raise issue of economic duress in district court will prohibit consideration of the issue on appeal
• “In searching for [the parties’ mutual] intention, we look to what the parties did and said, rather than to some secret, undisclosed intention they may have had in mind, or which occurred to them later.”
• settlement agreements are essentially contracts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).