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· 12/27/2011

ATA Airlines, Inc. v. Federal Express Corp.

Citations

  • 665 F.3d 882
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 25818
  • 2011 WL 6762865

How courts have described this case

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

  • “garden-variety” promissory estoppel claim differs from “conventional” breach of contract claim only in that enforcement of the promise rests on “reliance rather than on consideration”
  • “Courts interpret and enforce contracts; they don’t make contracts.”

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Judges: Easterbrook, Posner, Wood

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