Brahm v. Burnes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that fraud claims are properly alleged, and are not merely contract claims in disguise when “the injury alleged [i]s the detriment actually suffered by the plaintiff rather than the value of what defendant promised”
• noting that fraud claims are properly alleged, and are not merely contract claims in disguise when \the injury alleged [i]s the detriment actually suffered by the plaintiff rather than the value of what defendant promised\
• upholding the application of New York law in a suit between an in-state agent seeking to recover a finder’s fee against an out- of-state defendant
• “[w]ithout a finding that [plaintiff] could not recover punitive damages as a matter of law, [the district judge] erroneously construed the fraud claims as identical to those in contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).