Kevin R. Cook and K. Cook Enterprises, Inc. v. Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• discussing that future promises are contractual and cannot form the basis of fraud claims
• applying Michigan law and concluding that the existence of an integration clause in the franchise agreements made the buyer’s alleged reliance on prior representations unreasonable
• “[This covenant] cannot be employed, in interpreting a contract, to override express contract terms.”
• to constitute fraud, ‘‘allegedly false state- ments must relate to past or existing facts, not to future promises or expecta- tions . . . [or] statements referr[ing] to events which might happen in the future’’ [citations omitted]
• rejecting a plaintiff’s argument for the “bad faith exception”
• applying Michigan law to a franchise agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).