Western Filter Corp. v. Argan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court erred in finding that a survival clause created a shortened statute of limitations
• noting that under California law, a contractual limitation “must be clear and explicit, and is to be strictly construed against the party invoking the provision”
• noting contractual stipulations to shorten limitations periods are disfavored and “should be construed with strictness against the party invoking them”
• “If, prior to closing, either the seller or buyer discovers that a representation or warranty made by the other party is not true, they have grounds for backing out of the deal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).