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The 1956 Model Form JOA Does Not Apply to Future Leases

By Charles Sartain on April 11, 2013
Posted in Contract Disputes

Co-author Jonathan Nowlin

I learned to drive on an old, black, stick-shift, straight-six, no-radio, no-A/C automobile manufactured the year after the AAPL’s first  Form 610 – Model Form Operating Agreement was created.  The ’57 Chevy is now considered a classic. Not so with the 1956 Model Form, which is generally considered a relic. Clovelly Oil …

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