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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Johnson reverses the district court's grant of summary judgment to the landlord, finding that a liquidated-damages clause in a movie theater operator's lease is not enforceable. Actual damages caused by the operator's breach of its lease, namely unpaid rent, are able to be estimated accurately. The amount of liquidated damages provided for in the clause also does not account for the landlord's duty to mitigate damages and is not a reasonable forecast of actual damages. Reversed.
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