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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

Release Covered Shipper's Damages Claims in Breach Action Over Corn Cargo

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OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiff Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (“MOL”) brings this action against Defendant Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (“ADM”), alleging that ADM breached the parties’ contract by, among other things, declining to retrieve ADM’s cargo after MOL had shipped it from the United States to China and failing to repay MOL for various charges and expenses it incurred in transporting and storing the cargo. (Docket No. 27 (“Am. Compl.”),

18-34). ADM now moves, pursuant to Rule 12(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, for judgment on the pleadings, arguing that MOL’s damages claims are covered by a general release that the parties executed in March 2016. (Docket No. 30 (“ADM Mem.”)). For the reasons that follow, the Court concludes that the plain language of the general release precludes MOL from bringing its damages claims. Accordingly, ADM’s motion for judgment on the pleadings is GRANTED.BACKGROUNDThe following facts, which are taken from the Amended Complaint unless otherwise noted, are assumed to be true for purposes of this motion. See, e.g., Brass v. Am. Film Techs., Inc., 987 F.2d 142, 150 (2d Cir. 1993). In July 2013, MOL, an international shipping company incorporated in Japan, contracted with ADM, a Delaware food processing and export company, to transport several hundred metric tons of yellow corn from the United States to China on ADM’s behalf. (Am. Compl.

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