US Ecology, Inc. v. State of California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A license merely permits an entity to pursue a regulated activity, and has none of the elements of a contract.” (cleaned up)
• “A 6 promise to perform a preexisting legal duty is not supported by consideration.”
• “A license merely permits an entity to pursue a regulated activity, and ‘has none of the elements of a contract.’ ” (quoting Rosenblatt v. Cal. State Bd. of Pharmacy, 69 Cal.App.2d 69, 158 P.2d 199 (1945))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).