Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America v. Tribune Co.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that a letter of intent which expressly stated it would be binding was an enforceable contract
• finding that terms recognizing that a transaction may involve further documentation and negotiation of open terms is not necessarily incompatible with an intent to create a binding agreement
• finding that “terminology of binding contract” evidences intent to be bound, and relying on use of words “Accepted and Agreed” to find intention to create a binding agreement
• stating that such an agreement “binds both sides to their ultimate contractual objective in recognition that contract has been reached, despite the anticipation of further formalities”
• finding that the context of negotiations demonstrated a binding commitment to negotiate
• noting that that memorandum described itself as a “binding agreement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).