Greenstein v. Flatley

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• \Stringing along 14 tactics involve the use of a protracted 'pattern of conduct . . . calculated to misrepresent the true situation' to the target business and thereby induce detrimental reliance on the target's part\
• commercial tenant lost time, alternate rental opportunities, and expenditures as the result of false inducements by a prospective commercial landlord
• Court applied promissory estoppel to award both punitive damages and expectation damages of equal amount regarding an office lease
• commercial tenant loses time, alternate rental opportunities, and expenditures as a result of the false inducements of a prospective commercial landlord
• plaintiffs, who prepared to move to new office space in reliance on defendant landlords promise of a lease, were forced to find a new space on short notice, and at a much higher rent
• statute of frauds did not bar claim for breach of alleged two-year oral employment contract where party relied to his detriment on representations made by defendant

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