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· 1/18/1906

B. P. Ducas Co. v. United States

Citations

  • 143 F. 362
  • 1906 U.S. App. LEXIS 4643

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  • holding that whether defendants made false representations to plaintiffs to induce them into purchasing a product constituted a common question for common law fraud claim
  • analyzing choice of law provision applying only to matters of contract interpretation without broadening language
  • courts have “declined to include victims as part of the enterprise because victims 8 could hardly have shared a common purpose with [an] association designed to defraud them.”
  • “While state courts are not required to adopt identical interpretations of UPUAA and RICO, the Utah Supreme Court often considers federal case law on RICO claims when analyzing comparable UPUAA provisions.”

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