...statements regarding a dual ladder system for compensating and promoting technical employees were sufficiently definite to constitute an offer for a unilateral contract and a promise enforceable under a...constituted a unilateral offer communicated to respondents and that respondents accepted it by becoming employees and continuing their employment. Respondents alleged that appellant breached its contract with.... The court held that respondents stated a breach of contract claim upon which relief can be granted because appellant's statements were sufficiently definite to constitute an offer for a unilateral...

...Production Co. (Strata) for breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation. Mercury argues on appeal that: it modified its unilateral contract offer with Strata before Strata's acceptance by...). A. Mercury's Offer Mercury first argues that its farmout agreement with Strata was a unilateral contract, which it was free to revok...was a traditional unilateral contract, in which the offeror makes a promise in exchange, not for a reciprocal promise by the offeree, but for some performance. See 1 Joseph M. Perillo, Corbin on Contracts § 1.23 (rev. ...

...court erred by granting summary judgment because no unilateral contract existed. Under Minnesota law, a unilateral contract requires: (1) an offer definite in form, (2) communication of offer, (3...element, a definite offer, is lacking and therefore no unilateral contract was formed. Nebraska Beef contends that a genuine issue of material fact remains regarding the terms of Wells Fargo's offer, as..."offer" to permit continued overadvances at the stated terms constituted a unilateral contract offer that was accepted by Nebraska Beefs election to access the overadvance. These terms, as reflected in the...

...rejected the managers' characterization of the agreement as a bilateral contract: The court decided instead that Panera had extended an offer to enter into a unilateral contract and that the offer had.... As the district court correctly pointed out, an employer's "promise to pay a bonus in return for an at-will employee's continued employment is an offer for a unilateral contract." See... Cook v. Coldwell Banker , 967 S.W.2d 654, 657 (Mo. Ct. App. 1998). An offeror in a unilateral contract receives performance, rather than a promise, as considerati...

...contract: The court decided instead that Panera had extended an offer to enter into a unilateral contract and that the offer had become irrevocable because all class members had rendered a substantial part...court correctly pointed out, an employer's "promise to pay a bonus in return for an at-will employee's continued employment is an offer for a unilateral contract." See Cook v.... Coldwell Banker, 967 S.W.2d 654, 657 (Mo. Ct. App. 1998). An offeror in a unilateral contract receives performance, rather than a promise, as consideration in return...

...thereby accepted this unilateral contract offer and rendered consideration. Further, defendant asserts that it is this contract which was breached in mandating that Cook, Sr. take an early retirement...provision in the manual which would prohibit the company from mandating early retirement except for just cause. Therefore, assuming for purposes of this motion that there was a contract, the terms do not...

...v. Emhart Corp., 921 F.2d 425, 431-32 (2d Cir. 1990). In Reichelt, we rejected the plaintiff's contention that the employer's severance plan created a "unilateral offer that employees accept by continuing to work for ...). New York law apparently follows the minority view that a unilateral contract offer is revocable up until performance is...permanent service to Empire for at least twenty years. This provision can be construed as an offer that specifies performance as the means of acceptance — sometimes referred to as an offer for a unilateral...

...took the bar examination, he began performance on defendant's unilateral contract, thereby proscribing defendant's right to revoke the offer. As the majority notes, the usual rule...unilateral contract exists when one party makes a promise in return for consideration other than a promise. The Oregon Home Builders v. Crowley, 87 Or. 517, 534-35, 170 P. 718 (1918). Here, d...into a unilateral contract. The Oregon Supreme Court has recognized that an employer generally is free to set the terms and conditions of employment and the employee is ...

...employee handbook evidenced a unilateral contract, creating an oral promise of permanent employment based on an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, the supreme court stated: [...if accepted by the employee, may create a binding unilateral contract. The offer must...(emphasis added). The Pine River court noted further that the employer's "outward manifestations" must clearly evidence the unilateral contract offer, and emphasized that a showing of "subjective...

...the Association's rejection of the proposal. The second article discussed the unilateral contract offer, stating: "`The Board's new compensation package will become effective...to file a timely complaint after the Board tendered a unilateral contract offer to the teachers. "2. The Board's act of changing unnoticed subjects in the unilateral contract ...remedied by subsequent negotiations. "3. The deduction of $8,536 from the Board's original salary offer and the salary offered in the unilateral contract, and the...

...entry of an unlawful detainer judgment and required a trial by jury under RCW 59.12.130. a. Legal Principles A unilateral contract is a form of contract that is distinct from a bilatera...(1990). In a unilateral contract, one party makes an offer and the other party can accept only through performance of his or her end of the bargain. Storti, 181 Wn.2d at 36...unilateral contract binding and enforceable. Higgins v. Egbert, 28 Wn.2d 313, 317-18, 182 P.2d 58 (1947). And substantial performance is enough to render a unilateral contract enforceable. Storti...

...concluding that top hat plans were subject to ERISA, we turned to contract principles to resolve the dispute. Id. at 287. Examining the contract as a whole, we found a unilateral contract which created vested right...contained by continuing in the company's employment until retirement. Id. "Under unilateral contract principles, once the employee performs, the offer becomes...benefits of the New Valley plan can be construed as creating a unilateral contract offer that the employees accepted by working faithfully until retirement, at which time the benefits would vest. Thus...

.... The first discussed the factfinder's report, the Board's October proposal, and the Association's rejection of the proposal. The second article discussed the unilateral contract offer, stating...a timely complaint after the Board tendered a unilateral contract offer to the teachers. 2. The Board's act of changing unnoticed subjects in the unilateral...contract offer was remedied by subsequent negotiations. 3. The deduction of $8,536 from the Board's original salary offer and the salary offered in the unilateral ...

...within the context of the surrounding circumstances; unexpressed intentions may not be considered. [2] Contracts — Unilateral Contract — Offer and Acceptance. A promise to do...something upon another person's performance of a requested act is an offer for a unilateral contract. A contract results when the other person does the specified act with the intention of accepting the ...court properly categorized Treece's promise of $100,000 as a valid offer for a unilateral contract. The offer made promised that a contract would result upon performance of the act requested. Performance...

...an implied-in-fact contract provision." Id. Satisfaction of this burden requires Plaintiffs to show that Farm Bureau made a unilateral contract offer. See id. at 1002. Specifically...." ¶ 16 Taken as true, these affidavit statements do not satisfy the requirements of a unilateral contract offer. Specifically, they fail to allege Farm Bureau communicated any affirmative...relationship. Although Wood states he was under the impression that the letters governed, he fails to identify an affirmative manifestation communicated by Farm Bureau that can stand as a contract offer and...

...unilateral contract offer which is accepted if the employee continues in the employment. Here the employees continued in the employment of the company after being advised of its severance pay plan and are...severance pay plan not a mere offer of a gift, but a unilateral contract offer which is accepted "if the employee continues in the employment." Every plaintiff in this case was on.... Company's promise of severance pay in connection with decision to close plant is offer which creates enforceable contract when accepted by act of emp...

...- the photo impact email, the enrollment page, and the Program Rules - and concluded that they did not constitute a unilateral contract offer for one terabyte of free Google Drive storage for life...-constituted a unilateral contract offer for one terabyte of free Google Drive storage for life. Roley v. Google LLC, No. 18-CV-07537-BLF...Sully-Miller Contracting Co. v. Gledson/Cashman Constr., Inc., 126 Cal.Rptr.2d 400, 403 (Ct. App. 2002)), while a unilateral contract "involves the exchange of a promi...

...unilateral contract offer. Second, Cuzdey argues that the trial court erred in giving jury instruction 5 because it deprived the jury of its discretion to decide the issue of mutual assent, misstated the law...argued that her notice to begin rental constituted a unilateral contract offer which Cuzdey accepted twice: by remaining on the property, and by making two rent payments. In response...the offer of a tenancy. It could be inferred from these circumstances that Cuzdey intended to perform on the unilateral contract offer by remaining on the property. Id. at 15-16...

...in form an offer, and if accepted by the employee, may create a binding unilateral contract. The offer must be definite in form and must be communicated to the offeree. Whether a proposal is meant to...be an offer for a unilateral contract is determined by the outward manifestations of the parties, not by their subjective intentions. Cederstrand v. Lutheran Brotherh...changed conditions, the new or changed conditions may become a contractual obligation. In this manner, an original employment contract may be modified or replaced by a subsequent unilateral contract. The employee's retentio...

...formed, is in the form of a unilateral contract, which typically involves an offer made by a party which invites acceptance by performance rather than by a reciprocal promise to perform. Bell v...did not expressly decide that this policy could not constitute a written, unilateral contract offer that Mulvey could accept through...acceptance-through-performance of this unilateral contract offer by continuing employment until terminated, thereby binding the employer to its contractual promise. See generally Barron...