William C. Hays, Etc. v. Mobil Oil Corporation

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• validating a one-year contractual limitations period and holding that its application to the plaintiff’s unfair and deceptive trade practice claims did not violate public policy
• “indemnification clauses are still permitted to allocate the burdens of risks and costs among otherwise liable parties”
• agreement to indemnify defendant contained in plaintiff’s franchise and loan agreements worked to bar claim of estate against defendant oil company for contribution for environmental clean up
• summary judgment for franchisor allowed based on limitations period in franchise agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).