Forest Oil Corp. v. McAllen

in which Justice HECHT, Justice O’NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, Justice GREEN, and Justice JOHNSON joined.

This commercial contract case asks whether an unambiguous waiver-of-reliance provision precludes a fraudulent-inducement claim as a matter of law. Here, sophisticated parties represented by counsel in an arm’s-length transaction negotiated a settlement agreement that included clear and broad waiver-of-reliance and release-of-claims language. Because that agreement conclusively negates reliance on representations made by either side, any *53fraudulent-inducement claim, lodged…