Ampat/midwest, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Illinois Tool Works Inc., Cross-Appellant, and Triangle Fastener Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, after an extensive examination of Illinois law, that a plaintiff’s reliance on a representation only need be justifiable to support a cause of action for fraud
• affirming order vacating punitive damages after they were awarded by jury
• It is only after the court has determined that punitive damages are recoverable that the jury deter mines the amount.
• It is only after the court has determined that punitive damages are recoverable that the jury determines the amount.
• punitive damages not awarded, but failure to disclose defects was deemed to be fraud, even though the court indulged the assumption that (1
• “To be actionable, however, fraud must induce reliance—must in other words be both believed (if it is not believed, it can hardly be described as fraud) and acted on.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).