Posts tagged fraudulent misrepresentation claims.
Tennessee fraudulent misrepresentation claims - and "investment contract" claims under the State's Blue Sky Law - fail the "reasonable reliance" requirement, where the plaintiff himself asserts it's a fraud because nobody would believe such a thing.
In a case the Court of Appeals charitably called "astonishing," a lawyer and his successful businessman friend and client paid large amounts of cash over time to a promoter running a "Black Money" scam that also borrowed elements from the "Nigerian Prince" script. The scammers obtained money from both Lambert and ...
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Tags: Blue Sky Law, burr forman, fraudulent misrepresentation claims, investment contract, reasonable reliance, securities litigation, Securities Litigation & Arbitration, Tennessee