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092246P.pdf   08/25/2010  Roger Waldner  v.  Janet Carr
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-2246
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Dubuque   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - contracts. A memorandum between plaintiff and the HWK defendants was merely an agreement to agree and did not constitute a valid, enforceable contract as the parties never signed the necessary stock purchase agreement; because there was no valid and binding contract plaintiff's claim for rescission fails; plaintiff failed to establish a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation; claims for unjust enrichment and promissory estoppel were properly rejected; plaintiff's agreement with Haas defendants was not a contract, and the district court did not err in granting them summary judgment on plaintiff's claims for breach of contract and rescission; the terms of the agreement between plaintiff and the Van Wyk defendants were not definite enough to constitute a valid oral contract.