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finality clause

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 338 U.S. 457 - United States v. Moorman · 1950Most cited · 402 citing opinions

government contracts

Findings of a contractually designated agent, even where employed by one of the parties, are conclusive, unless impeached on the ground of fraud, or such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith. The intention of parties to submit their contractual disputes to final determination outside the courts should be made manifest by plain language.

How often courts cite the case defining “finality clause”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “finality clause” — 402 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.