Caterpillar, Inc. v. Usinor Industeel

How courts have described this case

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• noting the CISG is self-executing and applies unless the contracting parties expressly opt out of coverage
• “The law in force is the law as it was before the adoption of the unconstitutional Amendment.”
• “A promise for purposes of promissory estoppel typically involves ‘a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified.’” (quoting Derby Meadows Utility Co. v. Inter–Continental Real Estate, 202 Ill. App. 3d 345, 361 (1990))
• implying proximate cause element for implied warranty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).