Brents v. Barnett

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a fraud claim cannot “arise out of opinions or mere puffery— statements that are extravagant in scope and measure and elusive in meaning.” (footnote and internal quotation marks omitted)
• A fraud claim cannot “arise out of opinions or mere puffery – statements that are extravagant in scope and measure and elusive in meaning.”
• “A statement is not actionable in fraud if it is vague and indefinite, because such statements are deemed to put the party to whom they are made on inquiry notice to investigate further.” (internal quotation and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).