Klinke v. Famous Recipe Fried Chicken, Inc.

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• summary judgment is not appropriate when reasonable minds might reach different conclusions
• “Equitable estoppel is based upon a representation of existing or past facts, while promissory estoppel requires the existence of a promise.”
• summary judgment is not appropriate when reasonable minds might reach different conclusions
• a party may not defend on the statute of frauds if that party has breached his oral promise to reduce a contract to writing when the other party relied on the promise to his detriment
• “A party who promises, implicitly or explicitly, to make a memorandum of a contract ... and then breaks that promise, is estopped to interpose the statute ... [against one] who relied [on the promise] to his detriment.”
• summary judgment is not appropriate when reasonable minds might reach different conclusions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).