James Julian, Inc. v. State Highway Administration

ALPERT, Judge.

It is axiomatic that, within reasonable limits, parties to a contract may mutually select their remedies for breaches or differences arising out of the performance of the contract. In this appeal, we must decide whether the choice of words used by sophisticated parties in selecting the remedies precluded the parties from litigation before exhausting the procedures provided in the contract. The sophisticated parties are James Julian, Inc., appellant (“Julian”), the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (“the City”) and allegedly the State Highway Administration, Department of…