Cardamone v. University of Pittsburgh

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a promise not to pursue a law suit may constitute valid consideration
• “Promissory estoppel has been characterized as a substitute for consideration, an exception to the ordinary contract requirements, or even as a ‘species of consideration’ ”
• “Promissory estoppel has been characterized as a substitute for consideration, an exception to the ordinary contract requirements, or even as a ‘species of consideration’”
• The court held that forbearance from instituting a legal action was not consideration to make an agreement a binding contract where appellant did not intend or desire to elicit appellee’s forbearance.
• “Valid ‘consideration’ confers a benefit upon the promisor or causes a detriment to the promisee and must be an act, forbearance or return promise bargained for and given in exchange for the original promise.”
• “Valid ‘consideration’ confers a benefit upon the promisor or causes a detriment to the promisee and must be an act, forbearance or return promise bargained for and given in exchange for the original promise.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).