Topic: contract interpretation begins with the plain language of t… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 14 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Gould, Inc. v. The United States.

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1 Gould, Inc. v. The United States Anchor
cafc · 1991
green “contract interpretation begins with the plain language of the agreement.” 11
2 Allied Technology Group, Inc. v. United States
uscfc · 1997
green “the language of a contract ... must be given the meaning that would be derived from the contract by a 'reasonably intelligent person acquainted with the contemporaneous circumstances.” 3

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