Lopez v. CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an application containing the statement, “I hereby request that [the defendant] open a brokerage account,” did not create an enforceable contract
• “Mutual assent 19 usually is manifested by an offer communicated to the offeree and an acceptance 20 communicated to the offeror.”
• “[T]he pertinent inquiry is whether the individual to whom the communication was made had reason to believe that it was intended as an offer.” (quoting Donovan v. RRL Corp., 26 Cal.4th 261, 109 Cal.Rptr.2d 807, 27 P.3d 702, 709 (2001))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).