Marathon Oil Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency

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• holding that reliance on an oral promise absent any writing was unreasonable as a matter of law where the parties involved were sophisticated businesses
• \Damages recoverable under a claim of detrimental reliance are carefully circumscribed; the plaintiff may recover only those specific expenditures made in reliance upon the defendant's promise.\

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