United States Ninth Circuit
HUMETRIX, INC. v. GEMPLUS S.C.A., 99-56068
Under California law, a promisee's invocation of equitable estoppel to prevent promisor from using a statute of frauds defense does not preclude the promisee from recovering damages for breach of contract.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/06/2001
- Decided 10/04/2001
- Published 10/04/2001
Judges
- RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: KOZINSKI and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and FOGEL, District Judge.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Barbara C Biddle and Jeffrey Clair, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, amicus curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Peter W. Davis,Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, California; Andrew L. Deutsch, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, New York, New York, for the defendants-appellants., Sarah R. Wolff, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, Illinois, for the plaintiffs-appellees.