Legal Opinion
Trident Center v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 5, 1988No. 87-6085, 87-6267PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
The parties to this transaction are, by any standard, highly sophisticated business people: Plaintiff is a partnership consisting of an insurance company and two of Los Angeles’ largest and most prestigious law firms; defendant is another insurance company. Dealing at arm’s length and from positions of roughly equal bargaining strength, they negotiated a commercial loan amounting to more than $56 million. The contract documents are lengthy and detailed; they squarely address the precise issue that is the subject of this dispute; to all who read English, they appear to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Delta Dynamics, Inc. v. AriotoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
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