Association Benefit Services, Inc. v. Caremark RX, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding relevant for purposes of determining whether a contract existed as a matter of law the fact that a party adopted inconsistent positions
• affirming summary judgment on a fraud claim where the plaintiff “failed to raise a genuine issue of fact as to fraudulent intent”
• defining promissory fraud in Illinois as “involving a false statement of intent regarding future conduct . . . . ”
• discussing the holding in Athey Prods. Corp v. Harris Bank Roselle, 89 F.3d 430 (7th Cir. 1996)
• finding letter between the parties that was “silent on the issue of [the appellant’s] precise performance obligations ... so lacking in its description of the exchange as to render it wholly unenforceable as a contract”
• promissory fraud requires proof that “when the promise was made, the promisor had no intent to fulfill it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).