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Re:German court orders measles sceptic to pay 100,000 euros by icebraining on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:07PM (#9198265)
I believe the doctrine is called Promissory Estoppel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel
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Re:German court orders measles sceptic to pay 100,000 euros by schoen on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:10PM (#9198278)
Yeah, it looks like that's the theory.
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