(Unenforceable Terms, Expressio Unius, and the Right of Redemption) Minnesota courts enforce contracts.  Someone who signs an agreement cannot later escape it by saying he never read it,[1] and or that it is harsh.[2] A little hyperbolically, Minnesota courts occasionally explain that contracts must be enforced or else “chaos would prevail in our business relations.”[3]...Read More

In a dispute over whether a defendant could claim immunity from being sued, the Minnesota Supreme Court recently relied upon a principle of grammar to determine the meaning of the word “or” in the applicable statute.[1]  The Court deployed the terms “conjunctively” and “disjunctively” to explain its decision, and the cases cited in the Court’s opinion show that legal...Read More